3 instances of emissions-share & CREDIT DEBIT calculation methodology
For all countries, the procedure shown above and described below is applied to the whole carbon budget across time (past and future) integrating: -
- the PAST - to determine joint/several liability internationally for climate loss-&-damage claims already arising &
- the FUTURE - to clarify national carbon-budget-proportions of the global budget remaining under the 'Paris Climate Agreement'.
1750 to 2013, 'National Emissions' as shares are accumulated 'Actual Emissions', minus Debit &/or plus Credit.
Debit &/or Credit are the gross accumulated weights of carbon emissions, where 'National Emissions' were variously: -
- more than the rolling global per capita average of emissions, so creating a Debit or
- less than the rolling global per capita averageof emissions, so creating a Credit or
- variously more and less than the rolling global per capita average of emissions over time, but still creating an overall Debit or Credit.
This procedure: -
- assumes the simplicity and the certainty of regarding all claims on the 'use of' the global commons (ocean/atmosphere etc) as equal per person per unit time,
- reduces uncertainties - but crucially also eliminates infinities - from the sum of the overall carbon-use of and carbon-claims, counter-claims and intended claims on the global commons,
- means the combination of the above is deliberately employed for the specific purpose of making an overall carbon-budget total: -
[a] that commutes the sum of the national carbon-budget parts with
[b] the total international carbon-budget as a whole
[c] that in turn and by definition is required for UNFCCC-Compliance.This means the global total of emissions has been integrated and analysed on a non-random basis: -
- where carbon consumption levels have been defined
- both retrospectively and prospectively
- summing to UNFCCC-Compliant levels globally.
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