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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Equity and Climate Change
 The central issue is equitable
distribution of:
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- Mitigation commitments
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- Costs of damage or adaptation
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Climate Equity
 Equity Dimensions
 Equity in Practice
 Equity Conditions for a new
Agreement
 Mitigation Options
Equity Dimensions
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• Responsibility
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Dimensions
• Entitlements
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• Capacity
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• Basic Needs
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+ Economic/Political
assessment
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• Comparability
Effort and Interests
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Equity dimensions
How to reach an equitable outcome?
 Each equity dimension is distinct and points to
different directions creating winners and losers
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 Any agreement that exclusively relies on one equity
dimension is bound to fail
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 The challenge is to find an equilibrium among equity
dimensions, effort and interests.
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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
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- Historical
- Current/Future
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Emissions
Entitlements
- Per capita base
- Incremental departures from
national baseline emissions
Effort/Comparability
- Domestically manageable
- Competitiveness
Equity in Practice (4)
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Consequences of
Climate Change
Resource Transfers
More Help
• Adapting to climate
change
• Low carbon
sustainable development
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Process
• Transparency
• Capacity to participate
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
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For more information
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www.pewclimate.org