is a required field.
For the 2010 contest, proposals will focus on the question: What international climate agreements should the world community make?
All proposals will be grouped as entries under this proposal question.
Proposals will include at least the following elements:
(1) Emission reduction commitments for major countries or groups of countries
These will be expressed on the Actions tab in the proposal. At a minimum, using the current version of the software, users can enter emission reduction commitments for three major regions of the world (developed countries, rapidly developing countries, other developing countries) and global-level commitments for reducing deforestation and increasing treegrowth. We expect that by the time the contest begins, it will also be possible for users to create and upload spreadsheets that include more detailed breakdowns by smaller regions or individual countries.
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(2) Proposals for how global commitments will be financed
These will also be expressed on the Actions tab in the proposal.
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(3) Discussions of the other actions needed to make the above commitments feasible
The Description tab will include discussions of the technical, economic, social, political, and other actions needed to make the above commitments feasible.
At present the Description tab starts out completely blank, and users can add any text, links, graphics or other HTML elements. We propose that this tab start out with a template to be defined (see Sample template for Proposal Descriptions). Even though the system would not prevent users from changing anything in the Description field, the template would encourage them to include certain kinds of content, and the contest judging rules should probably require these elements to be included.
(4) Predictions of the physical and economic impacts of these actions (using computer simulation models)
These are automatically generated by the computer simulation models based on the inputs in the Actions tab
(5) Artistic or other representations of the world that would be created by this proposal
See Sample template for Proposal Descriptions
Models and Sub-proposals
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