Under what conditions did living organisms develop an autotrophic way of feeding?

Autotrophic nutrition is the process of acquiring energy and matter using the energy of the sun. We know this method as photosynthesis. In the process of photosynthesis, plants, due to the energy of the sun, assimilate carbon from the environment and synthesize organic compounds necessary for their further development on its basis. Accordingly, for the emergence of such a method of nutrition, the necessary conditions will be: sunlight and the presence of available carbon, for example, in the form of carbon dioxide dissolved in water or in the atmosphere of the planet.