Citizens' climate treaty

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Citizens' climate treaty is an action plan for global mitigation of climate change. It aims to replace the Copenhagen climate treaty that failed to be accepted in the Copenhagen COP-15 meeting in December 2009.

Scope

What is such a treaty that fulfils the following criteria?

It reduces the global greenhouse gas emissions in such a way that the long-term global temperature change can be kept below +2 degrees Celsius compared with the pre-industrial time.
It distributes the burden of actions and funding fairly between countries and people.
It is effective on voluntary basis and even if some important countries stay out of the treaty.
It is legally binding in countries that ratify the treaty.
It may have financial implications to countries not ratifying the treaty, however only in a way that does not violate the rules of international free trade.
The contents of the treaty are written according to the rules of the Open Task Group on Climate Change.

Definition

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Critical questions

Should the CC framework be based on carbon trade, carbon tax, a hybrid with both, or something else?
How should the future impacts be discounted?
Is the target to stay below +2 C ambitious and safe enough?
What is the detailed framework (ETS or similar) that leads to achieving the +2 C target?
What are the detailed practical actions needed for achieving the +2 C target?
What are the different things that each country is willing to accept/promote and which not? Why?
What are the decision options available at different levels? Who are the decision-makers?

Dependencies

Copenhagen Accord‎
Copenhagen climate treaty (not accepted in the meeting); also [1] The "Danish Text"
Mega case study
A proposal for an amended Kyoto Protocol and a new Copenhagen Protocol by members of the NGO community legal text (vol 2); also vol1 vol2
EU climate policy description

Result

The Copenhagen Accord is used as the starting point.

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