A biophysical model for a safe climate and sustainable growth

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What is the Living Systems Economy?

The Living Systems Economy (LSE) is a biophysical economic model for addressing the climate crisis, the ecological crisis, and unsustainable economic growth. The LSE is based on a thermodynamically plausible dual-economy architecture for managing the global carbon balance. It is underpinned by a new hypothesis for multi-agent systems and is validated against the biology of plant respiration and photosynthesis.

NEW CLIMATE POLICY

Global4C

A new climate policy that acts as preventative insurance against unwanted climate change. Earn the reward by abating or sequestering carbon; the costs are covered by monetary policy and currency trading.

SILVER GUN HYPOTHESIS

MAHB, Stanford

Economists and physicists are called upon to design experiments that test this new hypothesis for describing the thermodynamics of multi-agent systems and scaling-up climate mitigation actions.

CARBON PRICING MATRIX

SpringerLink

The carbon pricing matrix is the result of a biophysical analysis of market policies. The matrix identifies four principal policies for pricing carbon, including the new Global Carbon Reward. The biophysical analysis also identifies the Risk Cost of Carbon (RCC) as a new type of externality that complements the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC).

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LIVING SYSTEMS ECONOMY

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Victoria Zelin
Possible Planet
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vzelin@possibleplanet.org