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Chapter 2. Options for future climate change architectures 116<br />

4.1 A Viable Global Framework for Preventing Dangerous Climate Change,<br />

Climate Action Network (CAN)<br />

The worldwide network of 400 NGOs “Climate Action Network (CAN)”<br />

(www.climnet.org/pubs/CAN-DP_Framework.pdf) issued its ideas at COP-9<br />

in December 2003, parts of which were redefined for later UNFCCC meetings.<br />

CAN’s Global Framework is a multi-stage framework which assigns<br />

countries to one of two mitigation “tracks” based on responsibility and<br />

capacity, and, for some countries, to an adaptation track as well. The Kyoto<br />

track builds upon the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, with legally binding<br />

absolute emission reductions and emission trading (Section 2.1). The<br />

‘Greening’ (decarbonization) track includes non-quantified commitments such<br />

as Sustainable development policies and measures (SD-PAMS) (Section 2.3),<br />

though these would primarily depend on external funding – industrialized<br />

countries would provide resources and technology to drive much of this track.<br />

The Adaptation track, to be funded on the basis of capacity and responsibility,<br />

provides the resources to the most vulnerable regions (small island states, least<br />

developed countries) to deal with unavoidable climate changes. Countries<br />

receiving assistance under the adaptation track would also be eligible to operate<br />

under one of the other tracks.<br />

A combination of factors such as per capita emissions, ability or capacity to<br />

act and historical responsibility would be used to determine when and how<br />

countries move from the ‘Greening’ (decarbonisation) track to the Kyoto track.<br />

The level and character of the mitigation actions would be determined by<br />

reference to these factors; but the CAN framework says little about how they<br />

would be operationalized. No quantified example of the CAN Framework<br />

exists, and CAN is not developing one.<br />

The CAN “viable framework” is a very general framework, essentially a<br />

staged approach (see Section 2.1.2.1), but the elements within the framework<br />

are yet to be specified – which countries are part of each track or how much<br />

Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería ICAI <strong>Carmen</strong> <strong>Bunzl</strong> Boulet Junio 2008

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