From Production-Based to Consumption-Based National Emissions Inventories
This article discusses several issues in moving from the standard production-based National Emission Inventories (NEI) to consumption-based NEI.Read More →
Bali Action Plan
The Bali Action Plan outlines mitigation and adaptation goals to combat climate change. This Plan came out of COP13.Read More →
Differentiating (Historic) Responsibilities for Climate Change
The report recognizes two distinct kinds of responsibility--strict (or unlimited) responsibility, and limited responsibility--which are based on cumulative historic emissions of the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O. Read More →
Climate Change Justice
This article grapples with the responsibility of the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and considers how climate change will impact the U.S., compared to how it will impact other countries. Read More →
Climate Agreements Based on Responsibility for Global Warming: Periodic Updating, Policy Choices, and Regional Costs
This article explores regional mitigation costs resulting from global allocation schemes based on the Brazilian Proposal, and assess policy options available for calculating historical responsibility. Read More →
Introduction: An Architecture for Climate Protection
This chapter describes the issue of climate change and addressing it and probes the key architectural elements that could collectively
constitute an international climate protection architecture. Read More →
The Brazilian Proposal on Relative Responsibility for Global Warming
This chapter examines the policy implications and future potential of the Brazilian Proposal for establishing limitations on greenhouse gas emissions.Read More →
Responsibility for Past and Future Global Warming: Time Horizon and Non-Linearities in the Climate System
This report suggests a new ‘non-linear’, but transparent, approach for attributing CO2 concentrations, which would generally reduce Annex-I contributions. Read More →
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This document outlines the objectives of the 1992 UNFCCC. Read More →
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment
This book is designed to prompt appropriate Departments and Agencies to consider the problems and recommendations regarding emissions that the book reports on. Read More →