"Decent Living" emissions: A conceptual framework

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/35808 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/35808 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/35808 archive 351 disk0/00/00/99/95 2016-01-15 08:46:51 2021-08-27 17:22:32 2016-01-15 08:46:51 article show Rao N.D. 1961 0000-0003-1888-5292 Baer P. "Decent Living" emissions: A conceptual framework pub iis_ene prog_ene prog_pds Climate change; Equity; Energy; Sustainable development; Human rights; Basic needs There is very little elaboration in literature of the phrase "equitable access to sustainable development" that is referenced in the Cancun Agreement on climate change. We interpret this at a minimum as people's right to a decent living standard, which gives rise to claims by countries to an exemption from mitigation for the energy and emissions needed to provide a decent life to all. We elaborate a conceptual framework for a comprehensive quantification of such an energy requirement, including the energy required to build out infrastructure to support these living standards. We interpret decent living as the consumption by households of a set of basic goods including adequate nutrition, shelter, health care, education, transport, refrigeration, television and mobile phones. We develop universal indicators for these activities and their infrastructure requirements, and specify a methodology to convert these to energy requirements using energy input-output analysis. Our main recommendations include estimating bottom-up, country-specific energy and emissions requirements, incorporating a minimum for methane emissions, and using international benchmarks at the sector level to encourage the reduction of countries' energy and emissions intensity. 2012-04 published Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 10.3390/su4040656 XJ-12-048 Sustainability; 4(4):656-681 (April 2012) [doi:10.3390/su4040656] Special Issue 243 public Sustainability 4 4 656-681 TRUE 2071-1050 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/article