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For all countries, the procedure 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: -

• more than the rolling global per capita average of emissions, so creating a Debit or
• less than the rolling global per capita average of 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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