Last night was the launch of the Stockholm Network’s Carbon Scenarios, a project I’ve contributed to over the past few months. The event was well attended and there was some good discussion afterwards; the three – slightly depressing – scenarios seem to have really struck a chord with people. You can download the full report from the project’s webpage.
The thing with scenarios is that they are tools to help you think about how a set of issues might affect your particular area of interest. As Hardin Tibbs (one of the panelists) said, think of the scenarios as a set of first-order policies. You then need to figure out as many second-order policy responses as possible and test them against these situations.
I tried to do this by interpreting what the scenarios mean for cities. You can download my crib notes here but as they always say with government press releases, “check against delivery”.
