The Calculator as a Tool for Negotiators
We often point to the large emitters - China, The US, India and The European Union and say, they have to reduce emissions, otherwise there can’t be an agreement. We also know that The poorer nations are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and usually have little spare wealth to deal with their CO2 emissions.
Each individual country needs to consider a great variety of facts, problems and possibilities in order to understand how it can contribute to the combined world effort.
The national integrity of a country’s borders loses significance, because air, water and temperature do not recognise borders. Our attitudes and decision making processes haven't kept up with this new need for a world orientation that reflects our interdependency. Our new problems need new solutions.
The climate change calculator has been designed to reflect these needs.
The Tool for World Negotiation
There is a special download we have named the tool for world negotiation
This version of the calculator shows figures for the world as a whole and for the world's four main income groups (as classified by the World Bank) It includes a special table that links together financial benefits/costs for all these groups.
This allows an objective sharing of costs/benefits according to the real capacity of each country and can become a strong basis for negotiations. If the input figures in the calculator are changed for any one group, then not only the results of that income category will automatically change, but the figures of the World total will correspondingly change. This gives a clear indication of whether the negotiations are achieving the right level of commitments.
Download the Tool for World Negotiation here