Title: Allocation of ecologically allowable carbon emissions to countries as a key to more effective post-Kyoto Protocol climate change mitigation law

Authors: Wojciech M. Budzianowski; Dobrosława C. Budzianowska

Addresses: Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland ' Wrocław University, Wrocław, Poland

Abstract: The paper proposes novel carbon indicators as effective control instruments to design the post-Kyoto Protocol climate change mitigation law. The allocation of Ecologically Allowable Carbon Emissions (EACE) to countries show that a group of countries needs no emissions reductions today because their actual carbon emissions are below the EACE. The presented approach offers improved flexibility because it is neither population nor economic growth path dependent. It is also suitable for accounting of all existing carbon management mechanisms. The study is summarised by providing the main legislative goals of the proposed methodology and its realisation algorithm at national level.

Keywords: Kyoto Protocol; carbon emissions; carbon removal; sustainability; legal instruments; sustainable development; CO2; carbon dioxide; climate change mitigation; climate change law; emissions reduction.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2012.048456

International Journal of Global Warming, 2012 Vol.4 No.2, pp.113 - 133

Received: 12 Jan 2012
Accepted: 01 Mar 2012
Published online: 13 Dec 2014 *

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