This fairness principle led the Authority to recommend that Australia adopt
a national emissions budget of 10.1 billion tonnes CO2 - e for the period 2013 to 2050.
Not exact matches
And that is the most devilish detail of all: So - called «additionality,» the concept that in order to count against some kind of
national or international
budget for greenhouse gas
emissions, the
emissions avoided or reduced must be in addition to what would have happened anyway.
It is by this lack of specific demands on govt that CoP21 in Paris is on track to discuss merely short - term voluntary «pledges», with the US refusing to discuss the requisite framework for the equitable and efficient allocation of tradable
national emission rights under a declining global carbon
budget.
Just take the first paragraph of the «Vision for Equity»: there's no «we» that can do anything; no major government is likely to agree to «transform the system»; there's no supra -
national authority that can enforce things «we must do»; there's no way of defining a «global
emissions budget» that would be internationally agreed, let alone a method of enforcing it.
«These
emissions,» says
National Geographic, «must remain within a «carbon
budget» of about 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050 to meet the internationally accepted goal of limiting the rise in temperatures to 2 °C (3.6 °F) above preindustrial levels, according to the United Nations - led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Because of this, perhaps the most important immediate goal of climate change policy proponents is to help educate civil society and governments about the need to move urgently to make extremely rapid decreases in ghg
emissions whereever governments can and to the maximum extent possible in light of the policy implications of limiting
national ghg
emissions to levels constrained by a carbon
budget and in response to what fairness requires of nations..
Texas representative Ralph Hall, the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, along with 10 of his Republican colleagues, also called for
budget cuts and program terminations that directly targeted climate - science research, efforts to curb
emissions, and preparations for climate - change impact at the
National Science Foundation, the EPA and the Department of Energy.
Because allocation of
national ghg
emissions is inherently a matter of justice, nations should be required to explain how their ghg
emissions reduction commitments both will lead to a specific atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration that is not dangerous, that is, what remaining ghg CO2 equivalent
budget they have assumed that their commitment will achieve, and on what equitable basis have they determined their fair share of that
budget.
Like any attempt to determine what a ghg
national target should be, the above chart makes a few assumptions, including but not limited to, about what equity requires not only of the United States but of individual states, when global
emissions will peak, and what the carbon
emissions budget should be to avoid dangerous climate change.
1 / CP.15 Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long - term Cooperative Action under the Convention 2 / CP.15 Copenhagen Accord 3 / CP.15 Amendment to Annex I to the Convention 4 / CP.15 Methodological guidance for activities relating to reducing
emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries 5 / CP.15 Work of the Consultative Group of Experts on
National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention 6 / CP.15 Fourth review of the financial mechanism 7 / CP.15 Additional guidance to the Global Environment Facility 8 / CP.15 Capacity - building under the Convention 9 / CP.15 Systematic climate observations 10 / CP.15 Updated training programme for greenhouse gas inventory review experts for the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories from Parties included in Annex I to the Convention 11 / CP.15 Administrative, financial and institutional matters 12 / CP.15 Programme
budget for the biennium 2010 - 2011 13 / CP.15 Dates and venues of future sessions
Based on the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), the 2016 Global Carbon Project's Methane
Budget and the 2017 EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, the paper finds that methane
emissions from the U.S. natural gas industry account for just 1.2 percent of 2016 global methane
emissions and 0.2 percent of total radiative forcing.
Similarly,
emissions fall in line with the proposed fifth UK carbon
budget in only one of the four
National Grid scenarios; the others fail to hit the proposed 57 % cut by 2030, against 1990 levels.
The 2012
budget cut funding for the measure of industrial
emissions, closed an oil spill monitoring facility in British Columbia and a global water quality monitoring centre in Ontario, slashed funding for atmospheric research — resulting, among other things, in the partial closure of a vital research station in the High Arctic — and killed the
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which had been created by the Mulroney government.
In the next round of IPCC discussions in 2006, the proposed
National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Programme, which calculates each country's carbon
budget, will include
emissions from artificially flooded regions.
The ethical basis for why
national INDCs should specify; (a) the number of tons of ghg
emissions that will be reduced by implementation of the INDC by a specific date, (b) the warming limit and associated carbon
budget that the nation's INDC is seeking to achieve in cooperation with other nations, (c) the equity principles assumed by the nation in determining the fairness of its INDC, and (d) for Annex 1 nations,
emissions reductions that will be achieved by the INDC from 1990, a common baseline year.
A few days ago, I got mail from a colleague at Climate Action Network International, a communications guy, asking for a comment on the US
National Academy of Sciences recent climate reports, or rather on the US
emissions budget that is recommended / affirmed in these reports.