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Fresh from its NGO participation at COP15 in Copenhagen, Third Planet is pleased to announce it has organized and will moderate a breakout session “After Copenhagen: The Economics and Physics of Implementing the COP 15 Agreements” for the 10th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: The New Green Economy in Washington, DC, January 20-22.

Prior to the recent Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen a great many nations announced proposals to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The proposals were varied and covered many different base and target years making for very difficult and complex analysis.

A simulator was created to effectively handle the analysis, add up the proposed greenhouse gas reduction goals for every nation, and calculate the temperature increase expected in 2100. It generates a value for expected temperature rise and a range depending on how strongly temperature responds to emissions. The simulator was built by Sustainability Institute, Ventana Systems, and MIT.