Interactive: Analyzing Comparability of Annex I Emission Reduction Pledges
The ability to compare pledges is seen as a vital element of ensuring a fair, equitable, and transparent global agreement. There are many metrics of comparability that one could examine, including level of effort taken domestically versus via international offsets, abatement costs, historical responsibility, among others, and metrics could be combined and weighted differently. Here we examine three metrics of comparability: percent change in absolute emission reductions, per capita emission reductions, and emissions intensity reductions.
Copenhagen Accord
The Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC took note of the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009. The Accord requires those Annex I parties that have associated themselves with the Accord to commit to quantified economy-wide emission targets for 2020, which are to be listed in the Accord’s Appendix I. These commitments are reflected in this interactive chart.
http://www.wri.org/publication/comparability-of-annexi-emission-reduction-pledges/chart
