by J.A. Edmonds

This presentation discusses the forces shaping long-term future global energy demand and carbon emissions. The most important factors shaping future global energy demand and carbon emissions are population and technology. Population acts to set the scale of human activity, though there are many subtleties that work to either temper or magnify the basic scale effect. These factors, such as “tastes,” which temper the effect of population on energy demand are sometimes bundled under the heading “socio-economic” factors. Their effects can be significant.

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