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Safe vs. fair: A formidable trade-off in tackling climate change
Global warming requires a response characterized by forward-looking management of atmospheric carbon and respect for ethical principles. Both safety and fairness must be pursued, and there are severe trade-offs as these are intertwined by the limited headroom for additional atmospheric CO2 emissions. This paper provides a simple numerical mapping at the aggregated level of developed vs. developing countries in which safety and fairness are formulated in terms of cumulative emissions and cumulative per capita emissions respectively. It becomes evident that safety and fairness cannot be achieved simultaneously for strict definitions of both. The paper further posits potential global trading in future cumulative emissions budgets in a world where financial transactions compensate for physical emissions: the safe vs. fair trade-off is less severe but remains formidable. Finally, we explore very large deployments of engineered carbon sinks and show that roughly 1000 GtCO2 of cumulative negative emissions over the century are required to have a significant effect, a remarkable scale of deployment. We also identify the unexplored issue of how such sinks might be treated in sub-global carbon accounting.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 61.2011
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Sustainable Development
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
- Thema
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Climate Policy
Burden Sharing
Negative Emissions
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Tavoni, Massimo
Chakravarty, Shoibal
Socolow, Robert
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
- (wo)
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Milano
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Tavoni, Massimo
- Chakravarty, Shoibal
- Socolow, Robert
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Entstanden
- 2011
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