Cap and share – the best Carbon solution ?

Excerpt from wikipedia

Cap and Share is the name of both an approach and a campaign to halt climate change. It is based on the belief that every human being has a right to an equal share of the Earth’s very limited capacity to accept further greenhouse gas emissions before the temperature target adopted by the European Union, a maximum 2 degree Celsius rise in the Earth’s average temperature over that in pre-industrial times, is exceeded.

The policy was devised by Feasta (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) in 2005 and 2006, and they have set out the case in policy documents.

It is partly an extension and popularisation of the Contraction and Convergence proposal developed by the Global Commons Institute, which also calls for an equal per capita distribution of emissions. Cap and Share differs in that it insists that emissions allocations should be distributed equally to individuals as their right, whereas Contraction and Convergence (C&C) allows governments to decide if this is the way they wish to share out what is, essentially, their national allocation.

Useful links:

1. http://www.feasta.org/documents/energy/Cap-and-Share-May08.pdf
2. http://www.capandshare.org/

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