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equitable and effective climate regime Sharing the burden of emissions reduction has turned into a permanent impasse between developed and developing parties to the Climate Convention which is crippling its effectiveness; performance of the post-Kyoto climate regime must improve dramatically if climate is to be timely stabilized. This analysis shows that there is no essential reason for the impasse as emissions are mostly driven by richer individuals globally and not by developed countries per se. Signatory governments should focus instead on approaches for reducing emissions by richer populations globally, irrespective of countries. A system of per-capita emissions allowance is proposed to directly limiting emissions at individual level. Inherent advantages are effectiveness, equity and transparency. The scale and complexity of managing individual emissions could be streamlined such that its practicability favourably compares to that of the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms and possible successors. Complete article (.pdf) Mhai Selph, January 2010
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