Transcript Early Action & Climate Change

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Beyond Kyoto
Equity and Climate:
In Principle and Practice
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Prepared for the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change by
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John Ashton and Xueman Wang
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Outline
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Equity and Climate Change
Five Dimensions of Equity
Equity in Practice
Equity Conditions for a new
Agreement
 Mitigation Options
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Equity, Interests and Effort
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Interests
Equity
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Interests
Equity
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Potential for agreement
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+ What about future generations?
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Equity Dimensions
• Responsibility
• Entitlements
• Capacity
• Basic Needs
• Comparable Effort
Equity in Practice (1)
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Domains of choice:
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Emissions
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Consequences of Climate Change
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Resource Transfers
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The Process
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Equity In Practice (2)
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Responsibility
- Historical
- Current/Future
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Emissions
Entitlements
- Contraction and
Convergence
Comparable Effort
- Competitiveness
Per capita emissions as a metric
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Equity in Practice (3)
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Consequences of Climate Change
- responsibility
- capacity
- basic needs
Resource Transfers
- finance for development
Process
- transparency
- capacity to participate
Equity in Practice (4)
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More Help
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Consequences of
Climate Change
• adapting to
climate change
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Resource Transfers
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Process
• low carbon
sustainable
development
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• engaging with the
process
Equity in Practice (5)
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This means:
- no unique, objective way to reconcile
competing equity claims and fix
tradeoffs
- outcome must stand up in all five
equity dimensions, and in each
domain of choice
So leave room for politics
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Conditions for an Equitable Outcome
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US participation
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Leadership by
industrialized countries
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Some developing countries
constrain emissions
Mitigation
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Help with climate impacts
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Other kinds of help
Assistance
Mitigation Options
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The case for variable geometry
Safety valve
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Fixed targets
Relative targets
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Graduation threshold
Sectoral targets
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No lose targets
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Consumption
adjustments
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For more information
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www.pewclimate.org