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Cumulative emission scenarios using a consumption-based approach: a glimmer of hope?
- Source :
- Carbon Management. 1:161-175
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2010.
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Abstract
- Every year, new research illustrates how the pace of global emission growth gradually reduces the chance of avoiding ‘dangerous’ climate change. Previous analyses that have taken a territorial emissions framing approach demonstrate how little space there is available for Annex 1 nations’ emissions to continue at current levels because of the pace of growth in industrializing economies. This paper uses a cumulative emissions approach to explore whether a consumption-based framing offers new opportunities and avenues for tackling climate change. Results reveal that there is still scope for emissions to remain within a budget associated with a high probability of remaining below the 2°C temperature rise above pre-industrial levels associated with ‘dangerous’ climate change. However, both territorial and consumption-based approaches require a rethinking of the political orthodoxy for the highest probabilities of not exceeding 2°C. Using the consumption-based framework, mitigation policy in Annex 1 nations can...
Details
- ISSN :
- 17583012 and 17583004
- Volume :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Carbon Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........17f1dc90f7b06852d8fa3f914632f69b