What Would a Net-Zero 2050 Actually Look Like?

In December 2015, 196 national representatives met in Paris, France to establish a strategy to combat climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21). The result was one of the most critical pieces – if not the most critical – of climate legislature ever inked. The 196 parties entered a legally binding agreement to limit “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and endeavor “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”…