Carmen Bunzl - Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Carmen Bunzl - Universidad Pontificia Comillas
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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