{"id":703,"date":"2011-03-09T03:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/economics\/can-you-drastically-cut-uk-carbon-emissions-by-2050\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T03:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:56:56","slug":"can-you-drastically-cut-uk-carbon-emissions-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/economics\/can-you-drastically-cut-uk-carbon-emissions-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you drastically cut UK carbon emissions by 2050?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Could you take charge and organise changes in production and consumption to cut UK CO<sub>2<\/sub> production in 2050 to 20% of 1990 levels?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">This excellent interactive decision making exercise asks you to do just that. It has great potential in geography, economics, environmental science and more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Interestingly, if you get it right (succeed in hitting the 20% target or lower), you can submit your \u2018decisions\u2019 and the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decc.gov.uk\/\"><font size=\"4\">Department of Energy and Climate Change<\/font><\/a><font size=\"4\"> will combine your data with all other submissions to help inform a debate about the kinds of \u201cchoices and trade-offs the United Kingdom faces to reach the 2050 emissions reduction target\u201d.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Hit the link below:<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my2050.decc.gov.uk\/\"><font size=\"6\">http:\/\/my2050.decc.gov.uk\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Thanks to my friend and former colleague, Andy, for passing this my way.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you take charge and organise changes in production and consumption to cut UK CO2 production in 2050 to 20% of 1990 levels? This excellent interactive decision making exercise asks you to do just that. It has great potential in geography, economics, environmental science and more. Interestingly, if you get it right (succeed in hitting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[225,227,224,226],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geography","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-climate-change","tag-decision-making-exercise","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}