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Workshop on common metrics to calculate the CO2 equivalence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks Policy Goals and Common Metrics Implications Bonn, 04 April 2012 Newton Paciornik BRAZIL Common Metrics and Policy Issues • Why we need a common metric? – Multiple greenhouse gases – Need to provide an information about a non-CO2 ghg in CO2eq • Types of information – – – – – – – Climate change influence -> contribution to damage Scenarios and projections Inventories of emissions and removals Responsibility to climate change Goals Mitigation options (cost/benefit analysis) Choice of gases to consider • One metric fits all? – Is it possible? Is it desirable? Policy Issues and Policy Options • UNFCCC definition – Anthropogenic emissions and removals – Greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol – Issue: influence of other GHG and non-anthropogenic sources and sinks. • UNFCCC objective and principles – “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” – “on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.” Dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system • Evaluating the dangerous interference – Emissions -> Concentrations -> Climate Change (global) -> Damage (regional or local) • Limiting climate change (measure of interference) options: – – – – – temperature increase (average) rate of temperature increase sea level rise others Basket of measures • Secondary measures (proxys?) – concentration – cumulative radiative forcing Dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system • Limiting global average temperature increase – Most recent policy decision – Durban Platform: “holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels” • Horizon – – – – Forever below 2 °C Trajectory Overshooting allowed? Intermediary goals (checkpoints) – trajectory correction • Secondary scenarios and goals – Emissions and concentrations – Individual gases or basket Basket of Gases and GWP • Original sin – Kyoto Protocol basket approach • Flexibility of mitigation options to Annex I Parties – Option: Brazilian proposal • Burden sharing among Annex I Parties based on contribution to climate change (top-down approach) – Average temperature – Sea level rise • Too innovative at that point in time – Adoption of a bottom-up approach – On the shelf option: GWP (not developed with a policy objective in mind) • Propagation effect – Inventories: total GHG emissions – Mitigation options: policies and projects – Mitigation analysis: cost/benefit GHG Inventories and GWP • Estimation of annual anthropogenic emissions and removals of individual Greenhouse gases • Emissions in CO2 eq – – – – Nice, easy and understandable (?) information Annex I , mandatory (GWP SAR) Non Annex I, (GWP SAR if reported) Annex I from 2015 submission on (GWP from AR4) (most recent science!) • Time-series from 1990 on recalculated • GWP from AR5 will be available at this point in time • Fixed GWP along the time-series make sense? • Keep the individual gases estimates in metric units archived. It is the basic and useful information (policies can change) Mitigation Options and GWP • Annex I Parties – Quantified Emission Limitation and Reductions in CO2eq under the Kyoto Protocol – Flexibility of different gas reductions – Market mechanisms – Inappropriate metric can lead different contributions to combat climate change • Non-Annex I Parties – Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol – Inappropriate metric can lead to incorrect evaluation of the project contribution Revisiting the Basket Approach • Is it time to revisit the basket approach option? – Keep one overall basket – Individual gases – Multiple baskets • Recent developments – Proposal for dealing with F-gases in the Montreal Protocol – Papers questioning the basket approach and pointing for the Montreal Protocol lessons (e.g. Daniel et al. 2012) Translating Goals into Budgets • Single gas – From temperature to concentration to emissions – How to compare trajectories? – Discounting rate • On temperature • On cost – How to assess the cost before sharing the burden? • Different countries different costs • Market mechanisms work? • Basket of gases – CO2 equivalent trajectories – Individual gases trajectories Burden Sharing • Options to share the burden – Pledges (bottom-up approach) – Top-down approach • Responsibility • Capability • Equity • Individual parties goals – Second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol • Bottom-Up approach – Durban Platform • Open discussion Data: Oak Ridge National Laboratory CO2, Energy and Cement Brazil and UK Data: Oak Ridge National Laboratory CO2, Energy and Cement Brazilian Emissions in 2005 < UK emissions in 1888 Responsibility • Evaluation of responsibility – Current annual emissions – Emissions per capita – Historical responsibility • Contribution to Climate Change – Cumulative emissions – Contribution to global average temperature increase Capability • Evaluation of Capability – – – – GDP GDP per capita Human Development Index Others • High correlation with responsibility Equity • Dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system should be prevented on the basis of equity • Basket of gases and basket of sectors – Emissions from a gas have the same influence from the atmosphere point of view regardless of the anthropogenic source – From the equity point of view, anthropogenic sources may have different evaluation, e.g. • emissions from fossil fuel combustion • emissions from food production Final Remarks • From the policy side, there are still many options open • One specific metric not necessary will be appropriate to all situations were a basket of gases is used – – – – – Scenarios and projections Selection of trajectory Evaluation of responsibility Burden sharing Mitigation options • Historical responsibility to climate change is key in establishing budgets when sharing the burden and a common metric has to reflect it