Table 1 Key dimensions of setting a fair national emissions target

From: Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets

Physical + social uncertainties

Global strategies

Equity considerations

Epistemic/scientific

Political

Normative

Climate sensitivity

Temperature target and overshoot

Allocation principle (responsibility, capability or equality)

GDP projections

Global timing of action

Detailed normative parameters (for example, discounting of historical emissions)

Population projections

Global negative emissions

 

Global non-CO2 reductions

  1. Note that elements could be argued to be part of various dimensions, but this partitioning is merely used for presentation purposes later in the paper.
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