This is the master page for all GCI links. All pages linked here are cued back to this master page. There is also a Search function also covering the orginal site. 'Conraction & Convergence' - the C&C Principle & Practice Global Commons Institute (GCI) home page Contraction & Convergence (C&C) first 20 years (1989-2008) Assumptions; the 'Well Tempered Climate Accord' (WTCA) The C&C principle is 'Well Tempering' Speech at RCJ (2018); C&C "The Well Tempered Climate Accord" "Anyone who thinks C&C is Utopian simply hasn't looked honestly at the alternatives." UNFCCC-Compliance & Support for the C&C Principle On the basis of Precaution & Equity - UNFCCC-Compliance requires C&C "The C&C principle is unchallenged" Herman Daly Endorsements Support for this principle remains unrivalled C&C Principle - submission to UNFCCC 2012 Over the years twelve UN Agencies have cited/supported C&C Extensive High Level Support for C&C principle Extensive expert support Transition support for C&C worldwide includes David Attenborough All UK Political Parties strongly endorsed C&C C&C supporting Early Day Motions (EDMs) UNFCCC-Compliance animation requested from GCI by Minister Hilary Benn in 2007 The C&C Archive The future & what's needed to protect it, as seen in 2019 Awards 1994 a huge outcry over the climate 'Economics of Genocide' from Pearce & Nordhaus GCI's comment on UNFCCC - "return to sender" 1992 GCI's critique of the economics argued in the IPCC Second Assessment Report Upheld in IPCC_SAR Globally the poor are more 'carbon-efficient' than the rich The 3 in 1 Trefoil Usury Uneconomic Growth Disorder The economics of genocide Genocide by any other name (then) Genocide by any other name (now) Big wake-up call from paleo climate change records for the PERMIAN Extinction The changing rate of the temperature rise & fall over 100s of millions of years The changing rate of the rise & fall of CO2 concentrations over 100s of millions of years The rise & fall of T° CH4 CO2 ocean pH and sea-level over the last 600,000 years The 'Milankovitch wobbles' & 230 PPMV, the average over the last 600,000 years Climate emergency accelerating & carbon sinks relatively shrinking Global Warming is accelerating now (positive-feedback) Sinks are shrinking now (positive-feedback) Major Source-Sink questions in scenario from Rockstrom et al CBAT the 'Carbon Budget Analysis Tool' presented in GCI evidence to EAC Feedback & C&C arrays Embedded in CBAT (Carbon Budget Analysis Tool) measures this COP-6 (2000) Insurers anticipated global bankruptcy from climate damage rates by 2065 CBAT Appreciation EAC Carbon Budget Enquiries - were the models valid? Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) 'Carbon Budget Enquiries' (2009 - 2013) On its website UKMO admits the omission of major feedbacks from its climate modelling Under Oath UKMO then denies these omissions in evidence to the EAC Enquiry in 2013 The 'RCP' scenarios; sink failure rates modelled in RCP 8.5 (the path we're on) Emissions-Creep since UKCA (2008) Widely varying estimates of Emissions from Land Use Changes Climate Litigation Institutions & Considerations Collaboration with litigation agenda from 'Plan-B' All Country CREDIT DEBIT detail (1750-2050) Return to CREDIT:DEBIT Analysis Go to All Countries listing Alphabetical Go to All Countries in Regional Groupings Go to an easy Visualization of how CREDIT:DEBIT is calculated Go to All Countries in Overal CREDIT:DEBIT Groupings Go to All Countries detailed CREDIT:DEBIT Breakdown as %s Go to UK Emissions compared with several Regions Go to a short explanation of each element of the global analysis done for each country Globally the poor are more 'carbon-efficient' than the rich The enormity of the climate crisis & 'carbon-debt' inequity, puts us in double-jeopardy All Country CREDIT DEBIT detail (1750-2050) Growth rates CO2 pollution (1750-2017) Growth rates CO2 Pollution (1750-2013) by fuel Damages Liabilities Judicial Review Our Children's Trust IEA demand-growth (Oil/Coal/Gas) to 2040, vs contraction-rates for UNFCCC-Compliance Animation

Extraordinary People Lynda McDonald - textile artist and former programme manager NHS Julian Salt Colin Challen MP, the greatest climate campaigner ever in the UK Parliament Mike Hutchinson, the most Focused Climate Change Film Maker Mayer Hillman - since the '60's now a veteran campaigner on climate change Dave Hampton - broadcaster educator and activist David King - former UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor Jelle Hielkema - former Director at FAO, author and visionary Laurie Barlow - Architect campaigner and educator Dr Robin Stott Rabbi Jeffrey Newman Peter Critchley Adam Poole - Engineer at Buro Happold John Caddy - artist & visionary UK Climate Act based on C&C The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution advocates C&C (2000) The UK Climate Act (Contraction & Convergence) (UKCA 2006) All UK Political Parties strongly endorsed C&C C&C supporting Early Day Motions (EDMs) HMG's UK Climate Act (UKCA 2008) is C&C (Right Principle, Wrong Rates) UK CO2 emissions & carbon debit since 1750 (CDIAC) UK CO2 emissions oil coal & gas since 1750 (CDIAC) UK per capita CO2 emissions since 1750 compared with the rest UK Emissions & the Paris Agreement The irrationality of delay; the case in a Nutshell Canaries & Canards - Global & UK National - UKMO/HMG dodgy statistics 'Five Wise Monkeys' - a ludicrous idea from the UK CCC Sane Safe Fair? UK 'leadership' is >3 times its global share! Embedded Emissions - more false accounting from the British Government? BBC - Climate Facts "its all happening much faster than anyone thought possible." What the film seeks to reveal or perhaps conceal on the rates of global temperature rise BREXIT BREXIT = CLEXIT where climate destiny is completely ignored James HANSEN Fee & Dividend - a good idea from Jim Hansen Welcome encouragement from Jim Hansen UNFCCC & Climate Emergency GCI declares climate emergency at COP-2 in 1996 UKMO warns of 'temporarily' exceeding 1.5°C by 2023 Climate emergency, UNFCCC COP-24 & the the 'Katowice Rulebook' Submission to the UNFCCC's 'Talanoa Dialogue' (2017) IPCC 'Miracle' for AR6 - more carbon equals less temperature! Airline Emissions make a critical situation even worse Huge injustice against islands of the South Pacific Region The Marshall Islands Extinction Rebellion; Climate Emergency Now - the CARBON CLOCK is TICKING GCI called for declaring a climate emergency at COP-2 in 1966 Schellnhuber & others revise their emissions projections in line with GCI/Plan B It is the trend or the 'shape of the curve' that matters Carbon Budgets Countdown, apropos Extinction Rebellion & the CCC Global Framework for future carbon-rationing Extinction Rebellion Climate Siege BBC - "Climate Facts" What the film seeks to reveal regarding 'the rate of temperature rise' Music, BACH & the Well Tempered Principle JS BACH was a Pythagorean PYTHAGORAS Pythagoras String Demonstration Well Tempering & the musical derivation of the wonderous 'Phi' (0.618) Phi Derivation Model - 'The Stringularity Hypothesis' Hawking drew short of recognizing the real significance of Pythagoras String Experiment The symmetry-binding-derivation of 'Phi' from the Pythagorean Comma Symmetry-binding at the Phi-Point between steps 12 & 13 of the Pythagorean Comma Precise close-up of 'Phi' at the 'Phi-Point' between steps 12 & 13 of the Pythgorean Comma Symmetry-binding derivation of Phi rescues Standard-Model when Higgs Particle is added Phi-rich Pentagons Phi created the integers Happy Phi:Pi Day Phi at Green in visble Colour Spectrum & beautiful 'Fluminescence' from Ginny Battson Phi All Life Phi:Pi - governs orbits of Earth Venus and Sun Phi:Pi - governs DNA double-helix molecule Phi is at the structural core of DNA Pi:Phi equivalence at the core of DNA Structure and the key role of Rosalind Franklin Phi:Pi - Khufu Phi:Pi - Squaring the Circle Phi:Pi - Schwarzchild Radius Hemiola Deep Simplicity Eternity & golden spiralling electrons/'excitons' A Beautiful Model (Limits to Growth) Inside Out outside In for fun . . . . . Art & Life Tree of Life NEMI John Archibald Wheeler