Contraction and Convergence Awards

“With C&C, Aubrey Meyer’s insight into the problem of mitigation of climate change
bears the true hallmark of genius: - C&C is simple and robust.”
Dr Andrew Dlugolecki - Advisory Board Director, Carbon Disclosure Project,
Advisor on Climate Change to UNP Finance Sector Initiative

Aubrey’s interventions and their outcomes have consistently defined
the debate for UNFCCC-compliance:

Writing the founding C&C statement in 1990; publishing with around 250 co-signatories.
Helping generic C&C into the UNFCCC in 1992.
Personally waging and winning a battle with ‘climate-economists’ in the IPCC SAR
over ‘the value of life’ and the ‘economics of genocide’ in their
‘Global Cost Benefit Analysis’ of Climate Change - 1993 to 1995.
Persuading the Indian Government, quoting GCI, to very publicly endorse this victory
and to introduce C&C in their Ministerial statement to COP-1 UNFCCC in 1995.
Tabling the formal C&C model and communicating its output with wall-size graphics
at COP-2 in 1996.
Accepting the US Government request to try and enrol China, India and Africa Group
to C&C as ‘the only game in town’ during 1997.
Winning wide but soft political acceptance of C&C from India, China, the Africa Group
and the USA in the final negotiation at COP-3 in December 1997, but facing adoption
of the lesser Kyoto Protocol based on the Brazilian Proposal [BP].
Persuading the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution to adopt and
make hard C&C recommendations in their landmark report to Government
“Energy; the Changing Climate” in 2000.
Causing the Dutch Government to advocate C&C while hosting COP-6 in 2000.
Providing extensive C&C documentation to every COP from 2000 onwards
Persuading the author of the Brazilian Government Proposal
to agree publicly at a meeting in Sao Paulo in 2005 that
C&C was a better way to go than the Brazilian Proposal.
Getting the UNFCCC Executive to say “C&C is inevitably required”,
at COP-9 in 2004.
Causing Al Gore to advocate C&C in 2007.
Causing the inclusion of C&C in the Stern Report 2006
and its strong advocacy in the Garnaut Report 2008.
Causing Ban Ki Moon and 30 other eminent persons to openly advocate C&C
through the Asia Development Bank in 2008.
Causing Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown
to back C&C at the G8 in 2008.
Causing most political parties in the UK to back C&C.
Persuading many House of Commons Select Committee reports
to the UK Government to advocate C&C.
Getting conspicuous uptake of C&C in the policy literature of
numerous relevant institutions and campaigning groups 2000-2008
Finally winning a battle in Whitehall during this time to make
C&C the basis of the UK Climate Act in 2008, albeit getting
the right principle prescribed at the wrong rates.
Unable to prevent this prescription being tabled at COP-15,
where the rates were rejected, 2009.
Drawing the Chinese Government into dialogue about
negotiating the ‘right rates’ of C&C, 2011.