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

Data

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)
• 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)
• The "Danish Text" distributed but not accepted during the Copenhagen meeting.

Result

The Copenhagen Accord is used as the starting point.

See also

• Open Task Group on Climate Change