Fair Shares and Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: What can we learn from an equity review?

The brief advocates for the systematic review of intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) to ensure global mitigation efforts are fair and sufficient to keep warming below 2°C, arguing that such assessments can provide clear results even when using a broad range of fairness perspectives.

• The brief argues that systematic ex ante assessments or ex post reviews of national contributions can provide valuable insights, even when employing an open-ended approach that includes various perspectives on fair effort-sharing.
• Intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) are based on what countries are willing to offer rather than top-down scientific requirements or allocated effort, leading to calls for formal reviews to ensure collective ambition aligns with the goal of limiting warming to below 2°C.
• Several major emitters have provided preliminary mitigation pledges: the European Union aims for at least a 40% reduction below 1990 levels by 2030, the United States targets a 26–28% cut from 2005 levels by 2025, and China intends to peak emissions around 2030 and cap coal use in 2020.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2014). Fair Shares and Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: What can we learn from an equity review? https://www.sei.org/publications/fair-shares-and-intended-nationally-determined-contributions-what-can-we-learn-from-an-equity-review/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Fair Shares and Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: What can we learn from an equity review? 2014. https://www.sei.org/publications/fair-shares-and-intended-nationally-determined-contributions-what-can-we-learn-from-an-equity-review/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2014fair, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Fair Shares and Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: What can we learn from an equity review?}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2014}, month = dec, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/fair-shares-and-intended-nationally-determined-contributions-what-can-we-learn-from-an-equity-review/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }