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Potential pathways to reducing CO2 emissions and Ecological Footprint

  • Visualisation | 09 Aug 2018
Strategic Foresight

Even with current technologies and without prohibitive investments, there are potential pathways to reducing CO2 emissions and reducing Ecological Footprint, shows studies by Project Drawdown and McKinsey & Company.

The list of potential measures is available at: Moving the Date: What’s possible? Following is an illustration of alternative scenarios based on the studies.

Source: Moving the Date: What’s possible? Global Footprint Network

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09 Aug 2018

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