Contraction & Convergence: The Global Solution to Climate Change

By A. Meyer. 2000

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From long-term targets to cumulative emission pathways: Reframing UK climate policy (2008, background): “The UK Government’s 60% carbon reduction target has its origins in the emission apportionment regime ‘‘Contraction and Convergence’’ (C&C) (Meyer, 2000).”
Affluence drives the global displacement of land use (2013, background): “(2008) suggested the expansion of the ‘‘contraction and convergence’’ framework (Meyer, 2000) used in the global debate on carbon emissions to the wider range of ecological demands humans are placing on the planet.”
Equity in climate change: an analytical review (2010, background): “…noting here that the Stern (2007) and UNDP (2008) proposals are very close in spirit to the “contraction and convergence” ideas first proposed by Meyer (2000), which involves the global carbon budget contracting consistent with climate change goals, with rich countries converging down, and…”
Measuring a fair and ambitious climate agreement using cumulative emissions (2015, background): “Previous studies have assessed ambition (e.g., UNEP 2014) and many sharing principles have been proposed (e.g., Meyer 2000, den Elzen et al 2005, Böhringer and Welsch 2006, Baer et al 2008, Höhne et al 2013), but there are few analyses on the trade-off between ambition and fairness.”
Regional GHG reduction targets based on effort sharing: a comparison of studies (2014, background): “…IC Y TABLE 2 Continued Categories Responsibility Capability Equality Description Studies Stabilization level (ppm CO2e) References400 450 550 650 Equality X A multitude of studies have provided allocations based on immediate or converging per capita emissions (Agarwal & Narain, 1991; Meyer, 2000).”
Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions in Annex I and non-Annex I countries for meeting concentration stabilisation targets (2008, background): “Contraction & Convergence (C&C) CC Emission targets based on a convergence of per capita emission levels of all countries under a contraction of the global emission profile (Meyer 2000).”
Who bears the brunt? Distributional effects of climate change mitigation policies (2011, background): “One possibility could be the application of ‘contraction and convergence’ (Meyer, 2000) frameworks which envisage equal per capita allowances at a later point in time, thus implying less immediate redistributions between rich and poor nations. v. Finally, a key issue which so far appears to have…”
Options for differentiation of future commitments in climate policy: how to realise timely participation to meet stringent climate goals? (2001, background): “Kawashima, 1996; Metz, 2000). In their view, the principle of horizontal equity was dominant during the negotiations on the KP. In both the UNFCCC and the KP, the relations between the developed and developing countries are much more described in terms that refer to vertical equity and the polluter-”
Access and allocation in earth system governance: water and climate change compared (2010, background): “Recent proposals for allocating responsibilities range from critiquing the foundations of the common but differentiated responsibility and respective capability principle (Weisslitz 2005; Adams 2003, shades of the life-boat theory—Hardin 1974) to arguing that it is necessary (Rajamani 2000; Anand 20”
Conceptualizations of justice in climate policy (2009, background): “Equal per capita emission entitlements have received support in both the ethics and policy communities (Agarwal and Narain, 1991; Claussen and McNeilly, 1998; Gupta and Bhandari, 1999; Meyer, 2000; Singer, 2002; Höhne et al., 2006).”
Convergence of per capita carbon dioxide emissions in urban China: A spatio-temporal perspective (2013, background): “Fairness and regional equity have attracted considerable attention from applied geographical researchers (Li & Wei, 2010) and from GHG negotiators and policy makers (Cazorla & Toman, 2001; Meyer, 2000).”
Common but differentiated convergence (CDC): a new conceptual approach to long-term climate policy (2006, background): “This concept is most elaborated in the ‘contraction and convergence’ (C&C) approach (Meyer, 2000), in which all countries participate and per-capita emission allowances converge until a predefined date, e.”
Climate change accounting research: keeping it interesting and different (2011, background): “These include possible emission cuts of 80-90% by 2050 with significant cuts required immediately or very soon (e.g., Meyer, 2000; IPCC, 2007; Anderson et al., 2008; Agnolucci et al., 2008; Stern, 2008; 2010).”