Executive Summary
China Green Future is a collaborative project by Future Map, Beijing Academy of Soft Technologies and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The project dveloped on Future Map platform, contains China anticipated moves towards a Low Carbon Economy along with several possible scenarios.
It constitutes a holding environment for:
- Government agencies to develop policies,
- Corporations to design and deploy strategies,
- Universities to reality check models.
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Project Construction and Methodology
To ensure consistency, the event field of the project is built from two opposite directions at the same time: from the long-term scenarios towards the present by establishing a set of trigger points, and from the present towards the future by converting observed trends into anticipated events. Contributing experts add their forecasts and continuously update the map to factor in the latest developments.
As the forecasts made by different experts using independent methodologies are translated into anticipated events, we can crosscheck and refine our assumptions and expectations. The Future Map allows simultaneously mapping and tracking the developments anticipated in the immediate future (1 month -12 months), medium term (2 - 5 years) and long term (10 - 30 years).
By having the capacity to show a variety of visions of the future side-by-side, we can better evaluate future scenarios, reconcile conflicting information, understand alternative perspectives, identify discontinuities and examine gaps in our knowledge. Above is a snapshot of a small part of the Event Field of the project.