To build something valuable money is not enough. The model in the game should considers also “resources” but there are thousands of different types of resources: we have commodities, we have food, we have soil…
It is clear we need a huge simplification here.
There are 5 key principles:
- We will consider only the resources directly related to CHG emissions: Oil, Coal, and Natural gas, that are universally considered largely the main reasons
- Global resources production will be exactly the same as emissions (no storage considered)
- To distribute PRODUCTION we will consider effective production for Oil, Coal, and Natural gas
- Resources will be measure in M mtCO2e (millions of metric tonne of CO2 equivalent) per year
- Following the Paris agreement, GHG resource production will not remain stable
Note. mtCO2e is not directly correlated with KWh.
For example Coal has a lower KWh/mt than Oil but has a greater mtCO2e emission.
Given the point 1-4 we can tell that every year in the world we produce resources equivalent to almost 40 M mtCO2e (38.8), distributed as per the below chart
It is interesting compare Resource production with Resource emissions (see emissions): you can see Europe produces 6% and emits 10%; instead Middle east produces 11% and emits 7%. Also you can see the impact of Coal in East Asia, by far the largest producer, even if not the same in KWh.
The opportunity to use mtCO2e let us also compare sustainable resources that can be created with investment in research and growth of the economy. And the 5th principle listed above, support the idea that growth should come only from sustainable projects.
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