THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE MAJOR ECONOMIES' EFFORT IN THE DURBAN PLATFORM SCENARIOS

Massimo Tavoni (), Elmar Kriegler (), Tino Aboumahboub (), Kate Calvin (), Gauthier de Maere (), Marshall Wise (), David Klein (), Jessica Jewell (), Tom Kober (), Paul Lucas (), Gunnar Luderer (), McCOLLUM David (), Giacomo Marangoni (), Keywan Riahi () and Detlef van Vuuren ()
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Elmar Kriegler: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
Tino Aboumahboub: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
Kate Calvin: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/Joint, Global Change Research Institute (PNNL/JGCRI), 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500 College Park, MD 20740, USA
Gauthier de Maere: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), 20123 Milan, Italy
Marshall Wise: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/Joint, Global Change Research Institute (PNNL/JGCRI), 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500 College Park, MD 20740, USA
David Klein: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
Jessica Jewell: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tom Kober: Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), Policy Studies, Radarweg 60, 1043 NT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paul Lucas: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), 3720 AH Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Gunnar Luderer: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
McCOLLUM David: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Giacomo Marangoni: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), 20123 Milan, Italy
Keywan Riahi: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Detlef van Vuuren: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), 3720 AH Bilthoven, The Netherlands;

Climate Change Economics (CCE), 2013, vol. 04, issue 04, 1-25

Abstract: The feasibility of achieving climate stabilization consistent with the objective of 2°C is heavily influenced by how the effort in terms of mitigation and economic resources will be distributed among the major economies. This paper provides a multi-model quantification of the mitigation commitment in 10 major regions of the world for a diversity of allocation schemes. Our results indicate that a policy with uniform carbon pricing and no transfer payments would yield an uneven distribution of policy costs, which would be lower than the global average for OECD countries, higher for developing economies and the highest, for energy exporters. We show that a resource sharing scheme based on long-term convergence of per capita emissions would not resolve the issue of cost distribution. An effort sharing scheme which equalizes regional policy costs would yield an allocation of allowances comparable with the ones proposed by the Major Economies. Under such a scheme, emissions would peak between 2030 and 2045 for China and remain rather flat for India. In all cases, a very large international carbon market would be required.

Keywords: Climate change economics; equity; burden sharing; regional mitigation costs; integrated assessment models; bioenergy; integrated assessment; climate change; Q54; F53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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