{"id":1073,"date":"2009-11-23T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2009-11-23T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T21:05:31","slug":"absolute-vs-intensity-emission-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/2009\/11\/absolute-vs-intensity-emission-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute vs. Intensity Emission Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1074\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/11\/world\/asia\/11emit.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1074\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/files\/2009\/11\/11emit_span-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Failure to decrease our emissions could lead to more skies like this one, in Japan\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/files\/2009\/11\/11emit_span-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/files\/2009\/11\/11emit_span.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Failure to decrease our emissions could lead to more skies like this one, in Japan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Doc?docid=0AWX6pLBKlqTLZGc2ODZzM2pfMjc5ZmJ4NjQ1ZjY&amp;hl=en\">Absolute vs Intensity Emission Targets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the earliest stages of climate change negotiations, methods for making emissions cutbacks have been a subject of hot debate. \u00a0 Absolute caps, which would establish national, legally-binding emission goals, are the most well-known and environmentally effective system, however developing countries have recently pushed for intensity targets instead, insisting that target levels not interfere with  growth and development.\u00a0 This report explores the pros and cons of the absolute and intensity cap system methods, seeking to balance equity concerns with the pressing concerns about climate change consequences.\u00a0\u00a0 Is the most effective method also the most ethical?<\/p>\n<p>Further reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unfccc.int\/kyoto_protocol\/items\/3145.php\">Annex B Kyoto Targets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CO2 targets:\u00a0 Where Should Humanity Aim?, <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B2X6pLBKlqTLZGJkNTQyYTgtMzI1NS00OTg4LWI2ZjgtYTI4NjE5MjEzYjAy&amp;hl=en\">Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B2X6pLBKlqTLZmI4NWVlMmYtNGIzNC00MjhiLWJkNDEtM2E0OWY0NWU4YTM4&amp;hl=en\">How to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Case for Intensity Targets, <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B2X6pLBKlqTLYjExMTYwY2MtZWZlMC00NjcyLTk3YjEtZjYwN2UyOWI5Yzdm&amp;hl=en\">William Pizer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolute vs Intensity Emission Targets Since the earliest stages of climate change negotiations, methods for making emissions cutbacks have been a subject of hot debate. \u00a0 Absolute caps, which would establish national, legally-binding emission goals, are the most well-known and environmentally effective system, however developing countries have recently pushed for intensity targets instead, insisting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyoto-to-copenhagen-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}