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ProfessorJemWoods

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Professor of Sustainable Development
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9328jeremy.woods Website

 
 
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Location

 

1.02Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@techreport{Department:2015,
author = {Department, of Energy and Climate Change and Climate-KIC and International, Energy Agency},
booktitle = {Prosperous living for the world in 2050: insights from the Global Calculator},
publisher = {Crown copyright},
title = {Prosperous living for the world in 2050: insights from the Global Calculator},
url = {http://www.globalcalculator.org/},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - RPRT
AB  - By 2050, the global population is expected to grow from 7 billion todayto 10 billion, and the global economy is expected to triple in size1. Butby 2050, the world needs to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissionsto around half of today’s levels to have a chance of meeting ourinternational commitments to constrain the global mean temperatureincrease to 2°C. Is it physically possible to meet our climate targetsand ensure everyone has good living standards by 2050?To answer this question, experts from over ten leading internationalorganisations came together to build a model of the world’s energy, land, food and climate systems to 2050. The team built the “Global Calculator” to model what lifestyle is physically possible for the world’s population – from kilometres travelled per person to calorie consumption and diet – and the energy, materials and land requirements to satisfy all this. The climate impacts of different pathways are also illustrated by linking the model to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climatescience. The model has been tested with experts from more than 150organisations around the world. Uniquely, you can use it yourself – themodel, its methodology and assumptions are all published (seewww.globalcalculator.org).
AU  - Department,of Energy and Climate Change
AU  - Climate-KIC
AU  - International,Energy Agency
PB  - Crown copyright
PY  - 2015///
TI  - Prosperous living for the world in 2050: insights from the Global Calculator
T1  - Prosperous living for the world in 2050: insights from the Global Calculator
UR  - http://www.globalcalculator.org/
ER  -
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