Earlier this week, the European Commission stated that the climate commitments submitted by 149 countries in advance of the Paris climate conference in December were not enough to “avoid dangerous consequences.” The Commission is examining “which elements should be introduced at Paris to help make a final global warming agreement work.”
Critical to negotiating a climate agreement in Paris is “understanding the comparability of the pledged mitigation efforts,” writes RFF’s Joe Aldy of Harvard and Billy Pizer of Duke University. They outline several metrics which can be used for assessing and comparing “countries’ estimated emissions levels, emissions abatement, carbon and energy price effects, and costs of implementation.”
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