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2011-01-15

On "a new climate change paradigm"

Comments on Mutsuyoshi Nishimura “In search of a new climate change paradigm”, 15/01/2011, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/15/in-search-of-a-new-climate-change-paradigm/

Mutsuyoshi Nishimura's underlying core concept is attractive, that is equity and entitlement for global space.

It must be reasonably simple and practical and justifiable on the current global human rights.

That would lead naturally to equal per capita emissions entitlement globally and the subsequent global allocation of revenue from taxing emitters on an equal per capita basis.

The second point is a global carbon tax as compared to a global carbon market.

These international equity issue and efficiency will also naturally be able to deal with funding for developing countries, because they will get more revenue from the equal per capita allocation of global carbon tax revenue due to their lower per capita emissions.

Of course, a secondary question is how to deal with changes in population, given that countries have different growth rates.

But that could be dealt with after the first order principles are dealt with and an international framework agreed.

PS: 2 points: first, the difficulties in global emissions reduction could be attributed to the fact that it is the industrialised countries that don't really front up their responsibilities because they know very well that they will need to transfer any global carbon revenue to their developing counterparts under a fair game as opposed to they didn't understand the problem or did not have the analytical capacity to come up with a fair and effective framework;

second, the most efficient and equitable framework is a global carbon tax and equal per capita distribution of revenue among global citizens irrespective poor or rich, and the tax rate should be set to achieve reduction or emission levels.

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