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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2020.1728209
	A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways
	Anderson K.; Broderick J.F.; Stoddard I.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1469-3062
卷号	20 期号:10
英文摘要	The Paris Agreement establishes an international covenant to reduce emissions in line with holding the increase in temperature to ‘well below 2°C … and to pursue … 1.5°C.’ Global modelling studies have repeatedly concluded that such commitments can be delivered through technocratic adjustments to contemporary society, principally price mechanisms driving technical change. However, as emissions have continued to rise, so these models have come to increasingly rely on the extensive deployment of highly speculative negative emissions technologies (NETs). Moreover, in determining the mitigation challenges for industrialized nations, scant regard is paid to the language and spirit of equity enshrined in the Paris Agreement. If, instead, the mitigation agenda of ‘developed country Parties’ is determined without reliance on planetary scale NETs and with genuine regard for equity and ‘common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities’, the necessary rates of mitigation increase markedly. This is evident even when considering the UK and Sweden, two nations at the forefront of developing ‘progressive’ climate change legislation and with clear emissions pathways and/or quantitative carbon budgets. In both cases, the carbon budgets underpinning mitigation policy are halved, the immediate mitigation rate is increased to over 10% per annum, and the time to deliver a fully decarbonized energy system is brought forward to 2035-40. Such a challenging mitigation agenda implies profound changes to many facets of industrialized economies. This conclusion is not drawn from political ideology, but rather is a direct consequence of the international community’s obligations under the Paris Agreement and the small and rapidly dwindling global carbon budget. Key Policy Insights Without a belief in the successful deployment of planetary scale negative emissions technologies, double-digit annual mitigation rates are required of developed countries, from 2020, if they are to align their policies with the Paris Agreement’s temperature commitments and principles of equity. Paris-compliant carbon budgets for developed countries imply full decarbonization of energy by 2035-40, necessitating a scale of change in physical infrastructure reminiscent of the post-Second World War Marshall Plan. This brings issues of values, measures of prosperity and socio-economic inequality to the fore. The stringency of Paris-compliant pathways severely limits the opportunity for inter-sectoral emissions trading. Consequently aviation, as with all sectors, will need to identify policies to reduce emissions to zero, directly or through the use of zero carbon fuels. The UK and Swedish governments’ emissions pathways imply a carbon budget of at least a factor of two greater than their fair contribution to delivering on the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-2°C commitment. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	Carbon budgets; CBDR&RC; Developed country mitigation; Energy sector emissions; Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs); Paris Agreement
来源期刊	CLIMATE POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/183709
作者单位	Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS), Uppsala University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Anderson K.,Broderick J.F.,Stoddard I.. A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways[J],2020,20(10).
APA	Anderson K.,Broderick J.F.,&Stoddard I..(2020).A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways.CLIMATE POLICY,20(10).
MLA	Anderson K.,et al."A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways".CLIMATE POLICY 20.10(2020).