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Budgeting Carbon for Equity and Sustainability (Hardcover)
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Budgeting Carbon for Equity and Sustainability (Hardcover)
Series: China International Analysis and Evaluation Reports
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Although there is no denial of climate justice, there has been a
persistent lack of practical joined-up actions regarding the
creation of an international climate institution. However,
politicians and academic researchers have been working together to
find solutions. This new book is an attempt to put forward
constructive approaches to climate security and justice, building
upon the inputs from the wide-ranging debates that took place at
the CASS Forum on Climate Justice and the Carbon Budget Approach in
Beijing (April 2010). The purpose of this prestigious international
conference was to construct an international climate regime and to
help promote climate justice. It also called on governments,
particularly governments in developed countries, to bear the
historical responsibility of climate change. Climate change is a
controversial topic worldwide today and the international regime
and corresponding actions will inevitably have a lasting and
profound influence on the world economy and international politics.
At its thirteenth session, held in Bali, Indonesia, at the end of
2007, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Bali Action Plan,
initiating a new process of negotiations on long-term cooperative
actions under the Convention with the goal of reaching
international agreements on an international climate regime beyond
2012 at the fifteenth session of the Conference to be held in
Copenhagen, Denmark, at the end of 2009. The key factors in the
present international climate negotiations are a shared vision of
global long-term cooperative actions, mitigation, adaptation,
technology and finance, and their core issue is how to reach an
agreement for equitable burden-sharing of obligations for the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or allocation of emission
entitlements in accordance with the concrete conditions of various
countries and to ensure the implementation of such an agreement
under an appropriate international regime. As the largest
developing country in the world, China plays an important role in
international climate negotiations and is under increasing
international pressure. The existing Kyoto Protocol model takes the
level of emissions in 1990 as a base and determines the emission
reduction obligations of each developed country through
negotiation. The findings gathered together in this book break
through the fixed pattern of thinking of the Kyoto Protocol and,
based on the theory and methodology of the basic carbon emissions
needed for human development, studies a carbon budget proposal for
global greenhouse gas emission reductions. This proposal not only
better embodies the principle of "common but differentiated
responsibilities" established by the Climate Convention, but will
also be able to realize global goals for mid- and long-term
emission reductions. It represents a comprehensive proposal for
developing a more equitable and more effective international
climate regime. The CASS Forum on Climate Justice and the Carbon
Budget Approach in Beijing (April 2010) was organised in
association with the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies
of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Konrad Adenauer
Foundation and Misereor.
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