International negotiations
Online tools and their impact
Fair Share Now / Traffic Light Assessment
The FairShareNow.org campaign for climate justice launched by the 58 countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum is based on our analysis (under review with Nature Communications).
This platform contains the Traffic Light Assessment Report 2023 where the CVF explains how these results reflect key equity considerations of the Paris Agreement.
The results presented here are based on a study under review in Nature Communications (see below) that challenges existing models allocating fair emissions trajectories to countries and offers to address a bias found in the literature that favours large emitters.
Advancing Equity and Rights for People and States on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in conjunction with the Human Rights 75 initiative. Ahead of COP28, the objective of the event is to build momentum for a major “course-correction” to rights-based climate action consistent with the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement.
Hon. Henry K. Kokofu, Special Envoy of the CVF Ghana Presidency
H.E. Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
H.E. Ms Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Rwanda
H.E. Ms. Khadeeja Naseem, Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology of the Maldives
Dr. Yann Robiou du Pont, Researcher at Utrecht University (at 36:52)
Ms. Nahla Haidar, Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Ms. Deborah Iyute Oyuu, Programme Officer at the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda
Ms. Joice Mendez, Member of the UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad
UNFCCC Press conference at COP27. Climate Vulnerable Forum NDC Traffic Light Report
With Hon. Henry K. Kokofu, Special Envoy of the CVF Ghana Presidency
Launch of the Traffic Light Assessment Report 2022
Human Rights Council, 53rd session, Human Rights and Climate Change, draft resolution A/HRC/RES/53/6
Paris Equity Check
The Paris-Equity-Check.org is an interactive online tool that provides a fairness and ambition assessment of countries’ emissions pledges through two analyses reflecting the results of two peer-reviewed studies in Nature Climate Change and Nature Communications (see below).
The first analyses (Equity Map) compares countries’ pledges to emissions trajectories based on various interpretations of fairness based on the philosophical and legal literature.
The second assesses (Pledged Warming Map) the ambition of countries’ pledges against a combination of equity-based emissions allocations seeking to reflect the Paris Agreement equity principle.
Scientific studies
On the bias in current ambition assessment of countries’ pledges and the importance of immediate fairness
Effects of emissions allocations and ambition assessments immediately based on equity, Robiou du Pont, Dekker, van Vuuren, Schaeffer. Under review with Nature Communications.
This paper reviews existing models allocating fair emissions trajectories to countries and offers to address a bias found in the literature that favours large emitters.
Ambition assessment of countries’ emissions pledges and their global warming alignment
Warming assessment of the bottom-up Paris Agreement emissions pledges, Robiou du Pont, Meinshausen. Nature Communications, 2018. Ranked #8 in the Nature Communications "Top 50: Earth and Planetary Sciences".
This paper assesses the ambition of countries’ pledges against a combination of equity-based emissions allocations seeking to reflect the Paris Agreement equity principle. It provides the first ambition metric relating pledged emissions targets with global warming alignment. This paper relies on a bottom-up approach of equity where each country can apply their own approach of equity, reflecting the Paris Agreement architecture.
Modelling national emissions trajectories that reflect a range of equity principles, some reflecting the Paris Agreement
Equitable mitigation to achieve the Paris Agreement goals, Robiou du Pont, Jeffery, Gütschow, Rogelj, Christoff, Meinshausen. Nature Climate Change, 2017. Accessible here.
This paper compares countries’ pledges to emissions trajectories based on various interpretations of fairness based on the philosophical and legal literature.