Back to UNFCCC Submission Back to Signatory List Dear Aubrey, You can add my name to the GCI's C&C Proposal to the UNFCCC. With best wishes Andy Prof Sir Andy Haines , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (affiliation for identification purposes only) The Contraction and Convergence (C&C) position, in which countries aim for a similar per capita emission cap, seems the most promising approach to addressing the profound inequities in greenhouse gas emissions that currently exist. Professor Sir Andy Haines speaking on C&C before the Medics/Military Conference at the BMA Monday 17th October 2011 "Many congratulations on the endorsement from the UK Deputy Prime Minister and on your tremendous commitment sustained over many years to an equitable approach to climate action. Politically Contraction and Convergence [C&C] is the only credible approach which could be widely accepted." Professor Sir Andy Haines University College London The wide international inequalities in greenhouse-gas emissions will need to be addressed not least because developing nations are unlikely to accept their continued existence and, if the world’s population had the same per-head emissions as, for example, the citizens of the USA, the consequences would be profound. For this reason the concept of contraction and convergence has been proposed, which aims for equal per-head emissions over time. This aim requires choosing a stabilisation target and a date for convergence in per-head emissions between countries. Stabilisation at 450 ppm CO2e and convergence by 2030, for example, would necessitate reductions of per-head emissions of 90% for many developed nations (around 95% for the USA). Energy and Health 6, The Lancet - Policies for accelerating access to clean energy, improving health, advancing development, and mitigating climate change - Andy Haines, Kirk R Smith, Dennis Anderson, Paul R Epstein, Anthony J McMichael, Ian Roberts, Paul Wilkinson, James Woodcock, Jeremy Woods "Contraction and Convergence is a prime example of a UNFCCC-compliant Global Climate Change Framework. It is a rational formulation for reconciliation of 'Climate Justice without Vengeance'. Several ideas derived from C&C have surfaced since Kyoto with ideas that can be perhaps in various ways incorporated into C&C. However, there is an overwhelming need for an over-arching UNFCCC-compliant Framework that enables the globally competing interests of the over-consuming and the under-consuming to be reconciled with each other and with the objective of the UNFCCC in a non-random manner. We feel that C&C is the veteran and indeed the apex example of this and urge you to consider our request. At Kyoto in December 1997 and shortly before they withdrew from these negotiations, the USA stated, “C&C contains elements for the next agreement that we may ultimately all seek to engage in.” The adversarial reasons for their withdrawal then were in play again at COP-15: - http://www.gci.org.uk/public/COP_15_C&C.swf C&C answers this in a unifying and constitutional way and the need for this answer becomes increasingly critical." Letter & signatories here Anthony J. McMichael, MBBS, PhD Professor and NHMRC Australia Fellow National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Australian National University Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Human Health, University of Copenhagen Professor Sir Michael Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci Director, UCL International Institute for Society and Health MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Chairman, Commission on Social Determinants of Health Chairman, Department of Health Scientific Reference Group Professor Sir Andy Haines Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT [in a personal capacity] Alistair Woodward Head of the School of Population Health, University of Auckland Dr Nigel Woodcock Dr David Pencheon Director - NHS Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) Professor Anthony Costello FMedSci, Director UCL Institute for Global Health Linda Rosenstock MD, MPH Dean, UCLA School of Public Health Former Director, U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Professor Alan Maryon-Davis President, UK Faculty of Public Health John Guillebaud Emeritus Professor of Family Planning & Reproductive Health, UCL Professor Hugh Montgomery Director, UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance Dr Robin Stott Director of the Climate and Health Council Jenny Griffiths OBE, Member, Climate and Health Council Dr Richard Horton Editor in Chief Lancet Magazine Fiona Godlee Editor in Chief British Medical Journal Dr Jean-Baptiste Kakoma Rwandan School of Public Health Ian Roberts Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health LSHTM University of London Sarah Walpole, BSc, MBChB, York District Hospital, UK Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran President, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, UK Mr Tim Campbell-Smith MBBS BSC FRCS (Gen Surg) Consultant colorectal and general surgeon Mark Thompson General Practitioner Dr. Marie-Claire Lobo Consultant in Public Health Medicine NHS Hampshire Tony Waterston Consultant paediatrician (retired) Chair of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Advocacy committee Professor Fiona Stanley Director Telethon Institute for Child Health Research Perth Western Australia Dr Richard Lawson General Practitioner John H Crook Phd DSc Formerly Head of Joint School in Psychology and Zoology Psychology Department, Bristol University Francesca Vandelli Systemic Learning and Development Officer, Health and Social Care Bristol Dr Martin Hemingway Green Party, North West Leeds Action to reduce substantially carbon emissions in a way that is fair and equitable for all countries around the globe see Global Commons Institute’s policy of Contraction and Convergence, which is a carbon cap and trade policy designed to reduce CO2 emissions. THE CONVERGENCE OF HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A MANIFESTO AND A NETWORK SIGNATORIES Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom Scottish Environmental Protection Agency UK Public Health Association Sheila Adam, Interim Regional Director of Public Health, NHS London Edwina Affie, Public Health Consultant John Ashton, title to be confirmed Ian Baker, Hon. Reader in Public Health, University of Bristol Geoff Barnes, Health Policy Adviser, Sustainable Development Commission Ian Basnett, Assistant Director of Public Health, North East London Strategic Health Authority Chris Bentley, Director of Public Health & Clinical Engagement, South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority Graham Bickler, Regional Director , South East Health Protection Agency Chris Birt, Consultant / Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Central Liverpool PCT Leslie Boydell, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Institute of Public Health in Ireland Nick Cavill, Cavill Associates Sir Ken Collins, Chairman, Scottish Environment Protection Agency Anna Coote, Public health specialist Fiona Crawford, Public Health Programme Manager, Glasgow Centre for Population Health Andrew Furber, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer/ Consultant in Public Health Medicine, South East Sheffield PCT Campbell Gemmell, Chief Executive, Scottish Environment Protection Agency Mike Gill, Visiting Professor in Public Health, University of Surrey Sir Muir Gray, Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety, NHS Connecting for Health Jenny Griffiths, independent consultant Rod Griffiths, President, Faculty of Public Health Siân Griffiths, Director, School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sir Andy Haines, Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Neil Hamlet, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Fife John Harvey, Director of Public Health, Havering PCT Tony Hedley, Chair Professor in Community Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong Alison Hill, Director, South East Public Health Observatory Linda Hillman, Consultant in Public Health and Dental Public Health, Norfolk Public Health Network. Phil Insall, Director, Active Travel, Sustrans Lizi Irvine, Senior Lecturer, Napier University, Edinburgh Julie Hotchkiss, Director of Public Health, Ashton,Leigh & Wigan Primary Care Trust Richard Jarvis, Consultant in Health Protection, Cheshire & Merseyside Jack Jeffery, Immediate Past Chairman of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Director, Durham County Waste Management Ltd. Alyson Learmonth, Director of Public Health and Health Improvement, Sedgefield PCT Giovanni Leonardi, Consultant in Environmental Epidemiology, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Radiation, Chemical, and Environmental Hazards Carolyn Lester, Lead for Health Inequalities & Equity, National Public Health Service for Wales Ann McCarthy, Senior Lecturer, Division of Criminology, Public Health & Policy Studies, School of Social Sciences, The Nottingham Trent University John Middleton, Director of Public Health, Sandwell David Miles, Director of Public Health, West of Cornwall Primary Care Trust Ruairidh Milne, Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, University of Southampton George Morris, Professor, Senior Medical Officer, Scottish Executive, Maggi Morris Director of Public Health, Preston Primary Care Trust Aldo Mussi, Snr Lecturer in Health Development, Faculty of Health, University of Central England David Ogilvie, MRC fellow, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow Lindley Owen, Director, Mobilise! Project, Manager Sustrans Cornwall & Plymouth David Pencheon, Director, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory Cathy Read, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Barnsley Primary Care Trust Paul Redgrave, Director of Public Health, Barnsley Primary Care Trust Sue Roaf, Councillor Professor, Oxford Brookes University Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Helen Ross, Public Health Development Manager, Greater Nottingham Health and Environment Partnership, Harry Rutter, Deputy Director, South East Public Health Observatory Paul Scourfield, Chief Executive, Faculty of Public Heatlh Jackie Spiby, Consultant in Public Health, North East London Strategic Health Authority Cameron Stark, Consultant in Public Health, NHS Highland Robin Stott, vice chair Medact Jeremy Wight, Director of Public Health, North Sheffield Primary Care Trust Ewan Wilkinson, Consultant in Public Health, Liverpool Primary Care Trusts

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