“The carbon footprint” among the best inventions of 2009. With the contribution of an italian researcher
Sharing Global CO2 Emissions Reductions Among One Billion High Emitters,a reasearch carried out by a group of reserachers at Princeton University, is included in Time magazine’s invention top list of the year. Among the authors there is the italian researcher Massimo Tavoni (CMCC).
According to Time’s article: “Negotiations over carbon emissions resemble the end of a Quentin Tarantino film when everyone has a gun pointed at everyone else and no one can make a move. (…) A strategy focused on rich individuals instead of rich countries might just get us out of this”.
Related content:
- Sharing Global CO2 Emissions Reductions Among One Billion High Emitters – the research in TeC website;
- Time magazine about the research
- Time magazine top list