Should implement a collective management framework for several contingency measures

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Countries should agree to a collective management framework for potential contingency

programs now, or risk serious negative side effects of panicked responses to extreme climatic

events in the future. These contingency plans should include:

• Agreement on financing mechanisms to ease the large-scale early retirement of carbonemitting

capital stock, and its rapid replacement by less affordable non-emitting

technologies.</p>

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Accelerated cooperation on a range of advanced and additional low carbon energy

technologies which could be deployed at scale from 2020-2025.

• An international regulatory scheme for managing solar reflecting geoengineering research

and deployment.

• A deployment plan for utilizing the lowest risk carbon scrubbing technologies: carbon

capture and storage with biomass; “artificial trees” and biochar.

• A deployment and management plan for rapid global acceleration of nuclear fission

power plants.

Failure to construct contingency plans which could require tough choices, such as frontloading

critical infrastructure or reversal of policies in some countries on use of nuclear

power or carbon capture and storage, is highly risky. The pressure to act in the face of

severe climate events or indications of high impact scenario will be extreme, and without

contingency planning are likely to lead to dangerous or ineffective ‘solutions’ being

implemented.</p>