On the Design of Robust Emission Strategies to Stabilze the Concentration of Carbon in the Atmosphere

In the context of global warming, the problem of stabilization of the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere is widely discussed. Serious difficulties in the design of reliable stabilization strategies arise due to the uncertainty of the underlying physical model. In this paper, we suggest a pattern to construct modelrobust feedback carbon emission strategies that stabilize the atmospheric carbon concentration at a prescribe target value irrespective of a particular admissible carbon cycle model governing the “real” dynamics. Specific qualitative features of the carbon cycle dynamics, including automatic stabilization under vanishing inputs are employed.