Sharing the budget
There are three APPROACHES to sharing what remains:
fair HistoricallyTaking account of the fact that rich, developed nations have already used up far more than their fair share of total fossil fuel use.
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equal per personStarting from now, dividing what remains equally per person alive today. Contraction and convergence is another version of this.
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equal reduction rateAttempting to get all countries to reduce emissions by an equal percentage.
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THE BUDGET IS SHARED EQUALLY PER PERSON FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PERSONAL CARBON BUDGET
click here to see how the UK government has chosen to set the UK Carbon budgets
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