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Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions
IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6 (2009) 582021
IOP Publishing
doi:10.1088/1755-1307/6/8/582021
P58.14
How to achieve global scale climate change mitigation? An integrative global policy framework
beyond Kyoto
Vicente Rappaccioli-Navas
Founder, Harmonic Alliance Foundation, Consultant and Professor of Sustainability,Universidad Fidelitas,
Costa Rica
It proposes a politically viable and integrative policy framework to unite all nations in a financially feasible
way to achieve global scale climate change mitigation that could be implemented in 2009. One key feature is
that it represents a fundamental shift in policy and tools (P&Ts), of moving out of cost approach P&Ts
towards profit seeking ones in the gradual building of what I have named as the Green Capitalist Economy,
the elimination of pollution and waste in the production process under a Sustainable Development Intelligent
Design approach for the world economy. In essence, the above offers an opportunity to make business
profits in the climate change mitigation process within the short term so that there be no reason to further
delay a responsibility that is of all nations as well as all citizens. To start with this new approach, what is
needed is to realize that the Kyoto Protocol has been in itself an economic and financial barrier for global
scale mitigation mainly because it provides no economic incentives for the mitigation investment process,
divides the world into industrialized and developing nations (those without emission reduction
commitments), and sets a dangerously low 5% GHGs emission reduction target. It can be recalled:
“Effectively overcome the barriers identified by the IPCC at a global level: “Barriers to the implementation
of mitigation options are manifold and vary by country and sector. They can be related to financial,
technological, institutional, informational and behavioral aspects” (IPCC, 2007)” as well as others. This
barrier needs to be urgently surmounted by expanding the Kyoto Protocol now to include vital
enhancements outlined in the above mentioned paper as well as to admit new capital market instruments
such as the included and titled “Ecological” stock that will stimulate profiting within the mitigation process.
In consequence, there would be no reason for the world to wait beyond 2012 to start mitigating climate
change at a global scale as well as profitably.
If climate change mitigation were a right of humanity and the planet Earth included in the Universal
Declaration, to thin down “Global Risk”, “the combined world political, economic , social and warfare risk
that is rapidly resulting from the unparalleled planetary ecological degradation with strategic naturalresource scarcity, over pollution and contamination, drastic climate change, ozone layer depletion, excessive
biodiversity loss added to nuclear weapons and waste build-up”. The sensitive increase in such risk and the
resulting economic losses has led me to develop this proposal for the international community and, thus, for
the evaluation of the corresponding UN body, private and public sector entity.
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