What is a fair emissions budget for the Netherlands?

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What is a fair emissions budget for the Netherlands?

24 Aug 2022

What is a fair emissions budget for the Netherlands? Wh at is a fair emissions budget for the Ne therlands? How the Netherlands can integrate the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and capabilities in their climate target Autho rs: Hann a Fekete, Niklas Höhne, Sybrig Smit August 2022 What is a fair emissions budget for the Netherlands? How the Netherlands can integrate the pri. [...] The purpose of this analysis is to assess the proposed target pathway of the Netherlands’ government in the context of the required global efforts and the country’s historical responsibility and capability, which are both key principles of the international efforts against climate change and the Paris Agreement. [...] The Netherlands can consider the following concepts in setting its national targets, to live up to its common but differentiated responsibilities and capabilities as agreed in the Paris Agreement: Distributing the remaining carbon budget: In the absence of the opportunities for large structural negative emissions in the Netherlands, carbon budgets for the Netherlands would be comparably smaller an. [...] • Calculate the share of the Netherlands of current global budgets according to the current share of emissions (0.36%) and of population (0.22%). [...] This is in line with the Climate Action Tracker’s interpretation of the Paris Agreement temperature goal, and with the scenarios underlying the calculations in the study used for the “fair share” in section 2.3.

Authors

Hanna Fekete

Pages
27
Published in
Germany