Durban: India fought hard on Wednesday to ensure that the UN talks do not set a global target to cut emissions by a fixed figure under a pre-ordained timeframe.

Many studies have been published to evaluate the consequences of different post-2012 emission allocation regimes on regional mitigation costs. This paper goes one step further and evaluates not only mitigation costs, but also adaptation costs and climate change damages.

Many studies have assessed cost implications of different burden sharing regimes or allocation schemes for post-2012 regional emission reductions. These studies analysed the implications of emission allocation rules on the regional costs of abatement. Adaptation costs and residual damages are generally analysed separately from the burden sharing regime.

08 Jun 2013

The theme of this years’ World Environment Day is lifestyles and an opportunity to reflect on the central issue of global environmentalism - how a continually growing economic system can fit within a finite ecological system.

03 Oct 2010

It is in the interest of developing countries to agree to legally binding national emission limits alone to secure their fair share of the global carbon budget.