EQUITY REFRESHER

The document outlines a framework for climate equity, asserting that developed nations owe an ecological debt to developing nations due to historical overconsumption. It advocates for a global carbon budget apportioned by responsibility, capacity, and the right to sustainable societies, while calling for a systemic shift away from neoliberalism toward community-owned energy and agroecology to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate equity requires that developed countries reduce their emissions more than others and bear the majority of the burden for drastic reductions because they have historically overconsumed atmospheric space and plundered resources from developing nations.
• To limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5°C, developed countries must reduce domestic emissions at the source, provide finance for adaptation and loss and damage, and share technology and capacity building without using carbon markets, offsetting, or intellectual property patents.
• A global carbon budget should be distributed based on three criteria: the historical responsibility of those who put the most pressure on the climate system, the financial and technological capacity of nations to make binding commitments, and the needs of the most vulnerable and future generations.
• While the Stockholm Environment Institute and World Bank state that a 1.5°C limit is technically and economically achievable, an immediate revolution in energy, food, and transport production and consumption is required because 0.8°C of warming has already occurred and a further 0.6°C is inevitable.
• Addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental 'system change' to replace neoliberalism with an equitable economic system, including the adoption of agroecology, community-owned renewable energy, and the end of deforestation.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (n.d.). EQUITY REFRESHER. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/EN-CJE-equity-factsheet-FOEI_FINAL.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. EQUITY REFRESHER. n.d. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/EN-CJE-equity-factsheet-FOEI_FINAL.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternationalndequity, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{EQUITY REFRESHER}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/EN-CJE-equity-factsheet-FOEI_FINAL.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }