Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53244 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 66.2011
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the same period in which the US first agrees to cuts below BAU; and (ii) all countries are asked in the future to make further cuts in accordance with a common numerical formula to all. The formula is expressed as the sum of a Progressive Reductions Factor, a Latecomer Catch-up Factor, and a Gradual Equalization Factor. This paper builds on our previous work in many ways. First we update targets to reflect pledges made by governments after the Copenhagen Accord of December 2010 and confirmed at the Cancun meeting of December 2011. Second, the WITCH model, which we use to project economic and environmental effects of any given set of emission targets, has been refined and updated to reflect economic and technological developments. We include the possibility of emissions reduction from bio energy (BE), carbon capture and storage (CCS), and avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) which is an important component of pledges in several developing countries. Third, we use a Nash criterion for evaluating whether a country's costs are too high to sustain cooperation.
Subjects: 
Cancun
Climate
Concentrations
Cooperation
Copenhagen
Costs
Developing Countries
Development
Emissions
Equity
Global Climate
Global Warming
Greenhouse Gas
Human Development
International
Kyoto
Sustainable
Treaty
United Nations
WITCH
JEL: 
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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