A Turbo Drive for the Global Reduction of Energy-Related CO2 Emissions

Verbruggen, Aviel

doi:10.3390/su3040632

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“…Treating dissimilar cases alike is as inequitable as treating similar cases differently (Verbruggen 2011;Sterk and Hermwille 2013;Grubb, Hourcade, and Neuhoff 2014).…”

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The transformative potential of emissions trading

2015

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Limiting global warming below 2°C or even 1.5°C requires a fundamental transformation of global socio-economic systems. This need for transformation has been taken up by international climate policy. This article synthesis criteria of transformational change from transformation research and climate finance agencies. On this basis, the article conducts a multi-criteria evaluation of the transformative potential of the EU ETS, the world's currently largest market-based climate policy. From this case it can be inferred that emission trading can 'destabilise' incumbent highemission practices but their effectiveness in fostering innovation is limited. Furthermore, the analysis shows that details in the arrangements of the scheme such as allocation rules can have a strong detrimental impact on its outcome. If a global carbon market with a uniform price was introduced, this could lead to developing countries "buying in" with large amounts of freely allocated allowances. This, however, has been shown to thwart transformational effects and instead contribute to further carbon lock-in.

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“…Treating dissimilar cases alike is as inequitable as treating similar cases differently (Verbruggen 2011;Sterk and Hermwille 2013;Grubb, Hourcade, and Neuhoff 2014).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The transformative potential of emissions trading

2015

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“…Building on adoption of a global coal phase‐down target, parties should commit to develop national phase‐down plans as part of their NDCs and long‐term strategies. Regarding fossil fuel subsidies, parties could follow a two‐step process as outlined by Verbruggen (2011). In a first step, parties would commit to providing full transparency on all governmental levies and subsidies related to high‐emission and low‐emission activities respectively.…”

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From regime‐building to implementation: Harnessing the UN climate conferences to drive climate action

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Hermwille

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The gap between the internationally agreed climate objectives and tangible emissions reductions looms large. We explore how the supreme decisionmaking body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Conference of the Parties (COP), could develop to promote more effective climate policy. We argue that promoting implementation of climate action could benefit from focusing more on individual sectoral systems, particularly for mitigation. We consider five key governance functions of international institutions to discuss how the COP and the sessions it convenes could advance implementation of the Paris Agreement: guidance and signal, rules and standards, transparency and accountability, means of implementation, and knowledge and learning. In addition, we consider the role of the COP and its sessions as mega-events of global climate policy. We identify opportunities for promoting sectoral climate action across all five governance functions and for both the COP as a formal body and the COP sessions as conducive events. Harnessing these opportunities would require stronger involvement of

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“…First, it seems recommendable to adopt contributions related to economic inputs such as energy sources, in particular to improving the energy productivity of economies and decreasing the CO 2 intensity of energy provision (Verbruggen, 2011). Improving energy productivity and scaling up clean energy may dovetail more directly with what is seen as being in the national interest than emission targets.…”

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“…Ideally, countries should commit to 'climate budget reform' (Verbruggen, 2011), progressively phasing out fossil fuel subsidies and phasing in levies on fossil fuels and/or emissions. The speed and form of the budget reform would be left to countries to determine, but progress would be monitored internationally.…”

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UNFCCC before and after Paris – what's necessary for an effective climate regime?

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What can reasonably be expected from the UNFCCC process and the climate conference in Paris 2015? To achieve transformative change, prevailing unsustainable routines embedded in socio-economic systems have to be translated into new and sustainable ones. This article conceptualises the UNFCCC and the associated policy processes as a catalyst for this translation by applying a structurational regime model. This model provides an analytical distinction of rules (norms and shared meaning) and resources (economic resources as well as authoritative and allocative power) and allows to conceptualise agency on various levels including beyond the nation states. The analysis concludes that the UNFCCC's narrow focus on emissions targets, which essentially is a focus on resources, has proven ineffective. In addition, the static division of industrialized and developing countries in the Convention's annexes and the consensus-based decision-making rules have impeded ambitious climate protection. The article concludes that the UNFCCC is much better equipped to provide rules for climate protection activities and should consciously expand this feature to improve its impact. Policy relevanceThe international community is negotiating a new global climate agreement, to be adopted at the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in December 2015 in Paris and to be applicable from 2020. This article analyses the successes and limitations the UN-FCCC has had so far in combating climate change and it develops recommendations how to enhance efforts within and beyond the framework of the Convention. From our analysis we derive two main recommendations for an effective and structurationally balanced treaty: First, multi-dimensional mitigation contributions going beyond emission targets could strongly improve countries' ability to tailor their contributions around national political discourses. Second, the UNFCCC regime should be complemented with another treaty outside of the UNFCCC framework. This 'Alliance of the Ambitious' would allow the pioneers of climate protection to move ahead and enjoy the benefits of co-operation. The dynamics generated through such a club approach could be fed back into the UNFCCC, leading to increased ambition by others in future commitment cycles.

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A Turbo Drive for the Global Reduction of Energy-Related CO2 Emissions

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

The transformative potential of emissions trading

The transformative potential of emissions trading

From regime‐building to implementation: Harnessing the UN climate conferences to drive climate action

UNFCCC before and after Paris – what's necessary for an effective climate regime?

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