According to today’s FT, the EU parliament is to endorse per capita shares of carbon emissions:
The European parliament is expected on Monday to endorse a plan to allocate carbon permits on a per capita basis after the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012.
The plan would allow global trading of emissions rights along the lines of the internal cap and trade scheme established by the EU in 2005. The Kyoto protocol excluded developing countries and Vittorio Prodi, an MEP, says global trading would give them an incentive to join a successor.
“This is an idea that would get developing and developed countries involved. It would be very good for Africa, which would receive a sum bigger than their development aid [by selling permits],” Mr Prodi told the FT
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David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
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