See <a href ="http://www.throwingbeans.org/personal_carbon_rationing.html">Personal Carbon Rationing</a> for more information. While climate change races up the political agenda, governments are failing to offer bold solutions to the looming threat of global warming. Meanwhile, economists and environmentalists have begun to consolidate around the concept of personal carbon rationing, a simple framework which shares the right to pollute among the global population and uses market forces to promote low-carbon living. This presentation outlines the arguments for and against carbon rationing, examines the alternative economic proposals and imagines the changes we would have to make in order to live within our rations.

1. personal carbon rationing
a practical approach to
climate change
The Wychwood
Network Lectures

2. the scientist,
the politician
and the economist

3. scepticism is nutty:
600 scientists
113 governments
928 papers

4. lord rees,
president of the
royal society

6. positive feedback
southern ocean
permafrost
albedo

7. in our lifetimes:
floods
drought
food deficit
mass migrations

9. alice’s lifetime:
95% of all life

10. peak oil

11. peak oil scenarios

12. what about china?

13. my son lives in sydney

14. what can i do?

16. contraction and
convergence

18. three steps:
1. agree a level
2. share it out
3. trade any surplus

20. GLOBAL CO2 quot;CONTRACTIONquot; for 450 ppmv with
6 Region linear quot;CONVERGENCEquot; to Equal Per Capita by 2030
and population projections frozen from 2030
rce: GCI
6
tonnes carbon per capita
USA Per Capita
4
OECD minus USA Per Capita
Annex 1 (non-OECD) Per Capita
2
CHINA Per Capita
INDIA Per Capita
Rest of World Per Capita 0
Gigatonnes Carbon Gross
Rest of World
8
INDIA
CHINA
Annex 1 (non-OECD)
4
OECD minus USA
UNITED STATES
1860 2000 2140

21. alternatives:
taxation
kyoto
kyoto2

26. case study:
two adults
two children
two cars
rural semi

27. case study:
heating
electricity
commuting
holidays

28. tomorrow:
carbonrationing.org.uk
thecarbonaccount.com

29. sources:
george monbiot
mayer hillman
mark lynas
roger levett
robert henson

30. personal carbon rationing
a practical approach to
climate change
The Wychwood
Network Lectures