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Success would spur other G-20 countries, acting out of self-interest, to follow in the
climate
leaders’ footsteps.
Given that holding to a strict temperature limit is not a politically viable option, focusing
climate
policy on flexible benchmarks such as “climate neutrality” would be more effective over the short term and more promising over the long term.
The same complaint could be made about Trump’s views on
climate
change, immigration, foreign policy, or even gun control.
Those of us who live on the front lines of
climate
change – on archipelagos, small islands, coastal lowlands, and rapidly desertifying plains – can’t afford to wait and see what another degree of warming will bring.
People are being uprooted, and vital resources are becoming increasingly scarce, while those suffering the most severe consequences of
climate
change are also among those who have done the least to cause it.
It does not mean that previous
climate
models were excessively alarmist, or that we can take a more relaxed approach to reining in global warming.
That is how scientific research works, and it is why we can trust
climate
science – and its urgent warnings.
Our emissions are already among the world’s smallest, but our
climate
targets are the world’s most ambitious.
But whether the world manages to curb
climate
change ultimately will depend on the willingness of the largest current and historical emitters of greenhouse gases to fulfill their moral and ethical responsibility to take strong action.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the debate over the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in order to avoid dangerous
climate
change.
Yet, in international
climate
negotiations, their views of what each should do seem to be far apart.
As professors interested in the issue of
climate
change – one from a leading university in China, and one from a leading university in the US – we thought that it would be interesting to see if we could agree on a fair principle for regulating GHG emissions.
We have selected three widely discussed methods of allocating GHG emission quotas to different countries:The equal per capita emission rights approach allocates emission rights to countries in proportion to their population, but only for the remaining portion of the global “carbon budget” – that is, for the amount that can still be emitted, between now and 2050, without causing dangerous, irreversible
climate
change.
The second approach – equal per capita cumulative emissions – is, by definition, a way to produce perfect equality among all countries in the contribution that they will have made, over time, to
climate
change.
These widely different carbon Gini coefficients indicate that the world lacks a common understanding of what would be a fair approach to addressing global
climate
change.
Although the choice of a precise number is somewhat arbitrary, this “fair range” should establish the boundaries for those committed to an equitable solution to the problem of
climate
change.
Meanwhile, long-term problems – including
climate
change and other environmental threats, and increasing inequality in most countries around the world – have not gone away.
As a former Chinese ambassador to Iran recently put it: “For more than a year, Trump’s diplomacy, from the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and the Paris
climate
deal to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and the Syrian civil war, can be described as loud thunder but little rain.”
But, in a
climate
in which, as Catalyst, the feminist glass-ceiling watchdog, points out, only 4.2% of US Fortune 500 CEOs are women, is Barra’s promotion really a victory?
Given current political constraints, developing a TTIP with maximum impact will not be easy, and it will require some creative thinking – like that which facilitated the Paris
climate
agreement last December.
When the American public is provided with careful analysis of issues related to gun violence and
climate
change, for example, we can be confident that it will also be getting reasonable economic analysis.
No other country embraces such an extraordinary profusion of ethnic groups, mutually incomprehensible languages, religions, and cultural practices, as well as variations of topography, climate, and levels of economic development.
It needs to build substantially on its leadership on
climate
change by adopting much tougher EU goals, and then use its international economic and trade clout to champion new global emissions standards that scientific opinion can accept as meaningful.
The Trial of the CenturyPRINCETON – Next month, a judge in Oregon will begin hearing a case brought against the United States government on behalf of 21 young people, supported by the non-profit organization Our Children’s Trust, who allege that the authorities’ active contributions to the
climate
crisis violate their constitutional rights.
In 1992, countries, including the US, China, India, and all European states (and a total of 189 by 2006) accepted responsibility for addressing
climate
change.
Meeting at the “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, they agreed to stabilize greenhouse gases “at a low enough level to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the
climate
system.”
Yet, with very few exceptions, governments have failed to take sufficient action to halt
climate
change, and most exacerbate the danger by continuing to support the use of fossil fuels.
The first
climate
litigation to win a positive decision was Urgenda Foundation v.
Important as Urgenda has been, Juliana v. United States is by far the most significant
climate
case to date.
The plaintiffs claim that their government’s active contribution to
climate
change has violated their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.
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