.A new book by EcoEquity and the Stockholm Environment Institute called "The right to development in a climate constrained world" (about 100 pages) has been released.
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I have included a link to an easy to read (only six page) summary of the main ideas of the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDR) framework. Or for those looking for more detail check out the presentation made to the European Parliament (33 pages).
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In their words:
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"A climate framework designed to support an emergency stabilization program while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty."
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The Greenhouse Development Rights framework
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The Greenhouse Development Rights framework provides the tools to calculate a climate change agreement that has sustainable human development in its DNA.
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The framework places the climate crisis against the backdrop of an ongoing development crisis, and argues that it is unacceptable and unrealistic to expect those struggling against poverty to focus their limited resources on averting climate change. And it draws the necessary conclusions: those who are wealthier and have produced higher levels of emissions must take on the bulk of the costs of a global “emergency program” of mitigation and adaptation.
The framework places the climate crisis against the backdrop of an ongoing development crisis, and argues that it is unacceptable and unrealistic to expect those struggling against poverty to focus their limited resources on averting climate change. And it draws the necessary conclusions: those who are wealthier and have produced higher levels of emissions must take on the bulk of the costs of a global “emergency program” of mitigation and adaptation.
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This does not mean that the countries in which poor people live are not required to cut their emissions, but rather that the global consuming class – the elites both within these countries and in the industrialized countries – are the ones who must pay.
This does not mean that the countries in which poor people live are not required to cut their emissions, but rather that the global consuming class – the elites both within these countries and in the industrialized countries – are the ones who must pay.
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Also check out:
Splitting: 'jobs' versus 'the environment'
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Policy Quarterly: the problem of international ‘burden sharing’
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Combating Climate Change and Boosting Growth Are Natural Allies
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