FormerXBC Inc XEBEQ

Chief Carbon Officer

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What was needed was systems thinking and systems acting on a global scale. International coordination started slowly, then accelerated faster than anyone had imagined. The first year, a critical mass of middle income and developed countries with strong economic growth publicly committed to leveraging their resources against global-scale problems, beginning with climate change. Together, their governments hashed out plans for monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term and improving the absorptive capacity of the natural environment over the long term. 2 years later, an international agreement was reached on carbon sequestration (by then, most multinational corporations had a chief carbon officer) and intellectual and financial resources were pooled to build out carbon capture processes that would best support the global ecosystem. A functioning global cap and trade system was also established. Worldwide, the pressure to reduce waste and increase efficiency in planet-friendly ways was enormous. New globally coordinated systems for monitoring energy use capacity including smart grids and bottom-up pattern recognition technologies were rolled out. These efforts produced real results: 5 years later, new projections showed a significant slowing in the rise of atmospheric carbon levels.