Sentences with phrase «different emission allocations»

Two countries with the same Responsibility and Capacity Index (or RCI) and thus the same mitigation obligation would have different emission allocations in a given year — say 2020 — if they had different BAU emissions projections for that year.

Not exact matches

This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass contributions to the literature on equity in climate change, and highlights the consequences — in terms of future emissions allocations — of different approaches to equity.

Cong, Rong - Gang and Wei, Yi - Ming (2010): Potential impact of (CET) carbon emissions trading on China's power sector: A perspective from different allowance allocation options.

Although there are different theories of distributive justice that lead to different national allocations, many justifications for national ghg emissions allocations fail to satisfy any ethical scrutiny.

Noting that nations with similar total emissions (e.g., USA and China) may have very different per capita emissions (Baer et al. 2000), some commentators have proposed the concept of equal per capita allocation over time, with convergence toward a common per capita emission rate (Höhne et al. 2006).