MODEL OF PERSUASION: A Chilean engineer-economist employs math to show the consequences of - and possible answers to - climate change

摘要

Last December 12, representatives from 196 nations rose to their feet and cheered wildly as French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced the signing of the Paris Agreement. It was the culmination of two weeks of grueling global bargaining over the fate of the planet at the COP21 Climate Change Conference. Each participating entity brought its own action plan for addressing carbon outputs and for doing its part to mitigate Earths rising temperature.