Capping 23 years of intense research, debate and negotiation, the Paris summit of the UN Framework on Climate Change Convention asserts that a good INDC should be «ambitious, leading to transformation in carbon - intensive sectors and industry; transparent, so that stakeholders can track progress and ensure countries meet their stated goals; and equitable, so that
each country does its fair share to address climate change.»
Not exact matches
To hear Democrats tell it, the
country's main budget problem is that the rich don't pay their «
fair share.»
Not just lots of
shared values, like wanting a
country that is more free, more
fair, more green, more decentralised, but a
shared way of trying to
do business.
«Now,
countries need to fulfill their Paris promises by ensuring that the aviation industry
does its
fair share,» Brad Schallert, a senior program officer at the World Wildlife Fund, said in the statement.
Instead I offered to
do a post on my favorite products from Dermacol, an old brand started in Prague, as I have tried a
fair share of their products and after all the Czech Republic is our neighbor and we once were the same
country.
Every rescue organisation in the
country is inundated with unwanted dogs — most have their
fair share of BC's except the ones that
do not take in collies because they are too difficult in kennels and come in with innumerable behavioural problems.
The
country has also drawn its
fair share of millennials, much like the beachside neighborhoods of Miami, thanks to the number of things to
do and sites to visit.
There's much more at the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, including this new paper: «A Pre-Lima Scorecard for Evaluating which
Countries are
Doing Their
Fair Share in Pledged Carbon Cuts.»
Well according to analysis by EcoEquity with their Greenhouse Development Rights» calculator — for many of those
countries (e.g. China) their promise actually
does align with what you would call a «
fair»
share — given their historical responsibility and capacity.
But why / how would China
do more than its
fair share if the richest and most powerful
country in the history of the world has never even got to close to its
fair share?
In this capacity, nations could make choices about how to allocate emissions within their
country so that total emissions within the
country do not exceed their
fair share of safe global emissions.
Rather, it presumes that the climate regime that goes into effect in 2020 must focus pressure on those
countries that are not
doing their
fair share, and it must promise to continue to
do so in 2030 and beyond, even as the structure of the global economy changes.
They include, among many others, principles on what is each nation's
fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest risk from climate damages in poor nations that have
done little to cause climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their
country because climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?
Yes, we all have to
do our part if we are to tackle climate change, its a common obligation, but different
countries have different capabilities and responsibilities, each
country should be taking on their
fair share.
People on the frontline of climate change, who are already suffering as a result of climate change, demand that rich
countries to
do their
fair share of emissions reductions and provide necessary finance for an energy transformation in Southern
countries.
Are you aware that the claim frequently made by opponents of US and other national action on climate change that if the
country acts to reduce its ghg emissions and China or other developing
country does not act it will make no difference because climate change will still happen is not true because ghg emissions from nations exceeding their
fair share of safe global emissions are responsible for rising atmospheric concentrations of ghgs?
Should be reasonable accurate, as they want their (un)
fair share of the sales as taxes... Probably somewhat underestimated due to human nature to avoid taxes and some
countries who don't like to be the biggest emitters (China...), but nevertheless about twice the increase in the atmosphere...
Other
countries must
do their
fair share to if China is to have confidence moving forward.
Doing so would represent a
fairer share of global emission reductions, ensure the
country takes full advantage of its mitigation potential, and increase the chance of limiting warming to below 2 degrees C, to help avoid the most extreme climate change impacts.
Thus this process needs the inclusion of credible elements that possess the capacity to assess whether
countries are
doing their «
fair «
share, in line with science and a set of equity indicators.
As we shall see, these
countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to
do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's
fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their
fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
As these arrive, scientists and research institutes around the world will quickly tabulate them, and normalize them, and calculate their implied impact on global temperatures, and inevitably draw conclusions about which
countries are
doing their
fair share and which are free riding on the efforts of others.
In other words, what
countries are
doing, or proposing to
do, their
fair shares?
However, when you push a little farther and ask which
countries are most at blame — which
countries are
doing their «
fair share» and which are not — you find that only the reports of the Civil Society Equity Review coalition (full disclosure: I'm one of its authors) even attempts to broach the question.
As they
do, scientists and institutes around the world are tabulating the pledges, normalizing them, calculating their implied aggregate impact on global temperature, and — inevitably — drawing conclusions about which
countries are
doing their «
fair share» and which are free riding on the efforts of others.
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