What do you understand by “limited carbon budget”.
Examine its importance in the debate on climate change ?
“Limited carbon budget” means upper limit to which earth’s atmosphere can absorb and internalize the carbon emissions to maintain a stable environment. The concept gained popularity as earth carbon is limited and is mostly utilized by the developed world at expanse of developing or least developed countries to further their growth.
The limited carbon budget has following relevence
1. “INDC”(intended nationally determined contributions) targets now became compulsory. It
means extent to which a country is going to reduce its carbon emissions (India and china
committed to reduce their emission by 20-25% and 40-45% respectively by 2020). These targets are to be submitted by March 2015 but not later than October 2015.
2. Most significant development is “Peaking Year” concept where countries need to specify the year in which their emissions are going to peak( china has specified it to be by 2030).
This will replace concept of Annex-I, II and non annex countries as china the world’s largest emitter is non annex country similar to like Congo which is absurd.(non annex countries don’t take emission reduction commitments)
3. The “Disproportionate Accumulation” of carbon in atmosphere is done by developed world thus giving lesser space or “Headroom Emissions” for developing or least developed countries to focus on growth.
4. The distortion of limited carbon budget will have “Delayed Effects” (warm sea, melting ice, sea level rise, climate change etc) which will fall heavily on the future generations thus diluting the clause of “Inter-generational Equity”.
5. Further the distortion will lead to “ Asymmetric Impacts” of climate change which will fall heavily on poor countries, island nations, deltaic regions etc which will face events like submergence, drought, floods, cyclones etc
Poor countries don’t have resources to switch to cleaner technologies nor did developed countries are willing to transfer finances and technologies to them. In such a scenario Equity and CBDR(common but differentiated responsibility) clauses stands validated and shall be implemented to protect interest of poor countries and keep warming limit within two degree celcius limit.
Examine its importance in the debate on climate change ?
“Limited carbon budget” means upper limit to which earth’s atmosphere can absorb and internalize the carbon emissions to maintain a stable environment. The concept gained popularity as earth carbon is limited and is mostly utilized by the developed world at expanse of developing or least developed countries to further their growth.
The limited carbon budget has following relevence
1. “INDC”(intended nationally determined contributions) targets now became compulsory. It
means extent to which a country is going to reduce its carbon emissions (India and china
committed to reduce their emission by 20-25% and 40-45% respectively by 2020). These targets are to be submitted by March 2015 but not later than October 2015.
2. Most significant development is “Peaking Year” concept where countries need to specify the year in which their emissions are going to peak( china has specified it to be by 2030).
This will replace concept of Annex-I, II and non annex countries as china the world’s largest emitter is non annex country similar to like Congo which is absurd.(non annex countries don’t take emission reduction commitments)
3. The “Disproportionate Accumulation” of carbon in atmosphere is done by developed world thus giving lesser space or “Headroom Emissions” for developing or least developed countries to focus on growth.
4. The distortion of limited carbon budget will have “Delayed Effects” (warm sea, melting ice, sea level rise, climate change etc) which will fall heavily on the future generations thus diluting the clause of “Inter-generational Equity”.
5. Further the distortion will lead to “ Asymmetric Impacts” of climate change which will fall heavily on poor countries, island nations, deltaic regions etc which will face events like submergence, drought, floods, cyclones etc
Poor countries don’t have resources to switch to cleaner technologies nor did developed countries are willing to transfer finances and technologies to them. In such a scenario Equity and CBDR(common but differentiated responsibility) clauses stands validated and shall be implemented to protect interest of poor countries and keep warming limit within two degree celcius limit.
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