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CLIMATE CHANGE: Equity and Greenhouse Gas Responsibility
Paul Baer, John Harte, Barbara Haya, Antonia V. Herzog, John Holdren, Nathan E. Hultman, Daniel M. Kammen,* Richard B. Norgaard, Leigh Raymond
Disagreement over principles for the inclusion of developing countries in future global greenhouse gas caps remains an obstacle to the ratification and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Baer et al. argue that a transition from allocations based on past emissions (with a "grandfather clause"), such as the Kyoto Protocol, embodies for the industrialized nations, to allocations a new regime based on equal per capita emissions rights, is a necessary and fair solution that can lead to an effective global reduction regime. Such an allocation is consistent with numerous ethical principles and legal precedents, could facilitate trading in emissions permits, and can be implemented through a transitional period that accommodates the different situations and emissions levels of various countries.
The authors (except two listed below) are in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. J. Holdren is at the John F. Kennedy School of Government & Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. L. Raymond is in the Department of Environmental Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dkammen{at}socrates.berkeley.edu
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Arthur H. Westing;, Paul Baer, John Harte, Barbara Haya, Antonia Herzog, Nate Hultman, Daniel M. Kammen, Richard B. Norgaard, John Holdren, and Leigh S. Raymond (2 February 2001) Science291 (5505), 827c.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5505.827C] |Full Text »
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