Sentences with phrase «global burden sharing»

It wasan interesting exercise, because, with this proposal, Vattenfallstepped beyond generalities and (a first for the business sector, as far as we know) and made a specific, quantitative proposal for a global burden sharing framework that it quite explicitly claimed to be fair.

The North / South impasse will not be broken without a fair global burden sharing architecture, one that promises a way forward that does not threaten the development of the South.

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I think stepfamilies can engender a spirit of sharing our burdens with one another and ministering to our Global Family.

China will make the decision not only with the understanding of its own situation... but also the overall design of the global responsibility system, including looking at the share of burden or benefits in the process from other countries — for example the United States, Europe, Japan.

Which is not to say that the EU must rise to impossible demands, but that it must, somehow, signal a willingness, even a unilateral willingness, to carry its proper share of the global burden of meeting the 2ºC target.

The EC burden - sharing framework, unfortunately, is complex and somewhat ad hoc, and even if it worked internationally — even if it demonstrably protected the South's right to development — its lack of transparency would prevent it from being acceptable as a principle - based, global burden - sharing framework.

It could, in doing so, draw upon the GDRs analysis to improve its internal burden sharing proposal, transforming it into a proposal that would be transparent, principle - based, and extendable to a future phase of global participation on a fair basis.

And that, therefore, the key to climate protection is the establishment of a global burden - sharing regime in which it is not required to do so.

A forceful statement of leadership would be made if the EU were to simply and unilaterally commit to carrying its proper share of the global 2ºC burden.

In any case, the point is that the EU, by unilaterally committing to carry its proper share of the global burden of meeting the 2ºC target, would not only reaffirm its commitment to that target, but also prefigure the principle - based differentiation system that is necessary to support and sustain an emergency emissions reduction program in a profoundly unequal world.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

However, a counter argument can be made that a regime is just if total emissions from the area within the jurisdiction of the government are below the government's fair share of safe global emission regardless of whether some emitters are not covered by the government's ghg allocation because governments have the right to make decisions distributing the burdens and benefits of government policies within their jurisdiction.

any nation's fair share of safe global emissions, matters which are referred to by the IPCC usually as burden - sharing or effort - sharing considerations and a matter taken up in chapter 4 of IPCC, Working Group III chapter on sustainability and equity,

That cost was close to what was inferred in an Energy Ministry press release headlined: «Refinancing the Global Adjustment» but suggesting it was taxpayer owned «infrastructure»: «To relieve the current burden on ratepayers and share costs more fairly, a portion of the GA is being refinanced.

b) Deployment of a fast - working high - leverage technology (such as — possibly — stratospheric aerosols) may not have the same burden - sharing problems, but would surely require a global agreement for other reasons.

Carbon capture infrastructure capable of reversing the 30 + billion tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions would require such enormous designs, development and roll - out and be so expensive that a global burden - sharing agreement would be absolutely essential.

Burden - sharing frameworks — several of which are reviewed in this report — can assist in determining the allocation of each country's share of emissions reductions, as well as the allocation of permits under a global cap - and - trade regime.»

The blame for the debacle, you see, belonged to the «emerging economies,» who refused to carry their shares of the global stabilization burden.

Despite the coming low - carbon energy revolution, we can't expect to make that escape without systems of global cooperation, burden sharing and accountability to help us along, systems that can only be rooted in a fair multilateral accord.