Emission-allocation Model

Climate regimes

The emission-allocation model includes the following five basic climate regimes for the differentiation of future commitments(den Elzen, 2002, den Elzen et al., 2003; den Elzen and Lucas, 2003):

1. Multi-Stage regime: A gradual increase in the number of Parties involved adopting either emission intensity or reduction targets (Berk and den Elzen, 2001).
2. Brazilian Proposal: Reduction targets based on countries’ contribution to temperature increase (UNFCCC, 1997), participation in emission reductions based on a per capita income threshold (den Elzen et al., 2003).
3. Ability to Pay: Emission reduction allocation and participation in emission reduction based on per capita income thresholds (Jacoby et al., 1999).
4. Contraction & Convergence: Emission targets based on a convergence of per capita emission levels of all Parties under a contraction of the global emission profile (Meyer, 2000).
5. CSE convergence: Per capita emission convergence (C&C) combined with basic sustainable emission rights, by Centre of Science and Environment (CSE) (CSE, 1998).
6. Global Compromise: Allocation of the global emission allowances based on a population-weighted preference score voting for either emission (grandfathering) or per capita allocation (Müller, 1999).
7. Grandfathering: Allocation of the global emission reduction proportional to their present emission share, with participation in reduction based on an income threshold (Rose et al., 1998).
8. Multi-Criteria Convergence: Allocation of the global emission allowances based on different weighting of criteria, i.e. emissions, population and GDP
9. Emission Intensity Targets: Emission reductions related to improvements in the emission per unit GDP output (den Elzen and Berk, 2003).
10. Triptych: Emission allowances based on various differentiation rules to different sectors for all Parties (Phylipsen et al., 1998).
11. Common-but-Differentiated Convergence: All countries’ per capita emissions converge, but “differentiated”, as developing countries do the same but delayed, when their per capita emissions are at a certain percentage above global average (Höhne et al., 2006).
12. South-North Dialogue Proposal: This approach outlines equitable approaches to mitigation. These approaches were based on the criteria of responsibility, capability and potential to mitigate, and include deep cuts in industrialised (Annex I) countries and differentiated mitigation commitments
    for developing countries (Ott et al., 2004).
13. Equal abatement costs: differentiation of emission reductions based on equal mitigation costs per country (expressed as a percentage of GDP) (MER) (Babiker and Eckaus, 2002; Rose et al., 1998)

References

• MNP References
• External References