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The broader climate transition will involve massive deployment of renewable energy and adaptations like enhanced space cooling and coastal protection and retreat. These interventions require energy and materials, which will produce CO2 emissions. But the magnitude of these emissions remains unconstrained, opening the potential for under-accounting of future emissions and conflicts or synergies between mitigation and adaptation goals. Corey will show that these embedded transition emissions are likely considerable, reaching 185GtCO2 (about 5 years of current emissions) under a pathway consistent with current policies. But there is good news! Embedded transition emissions can be minimized by a faster transition to clean energy.