Operationalizing equity and supporting ambition: identifying a more robust approach to ‘respective capabilities’

摘要: ‘Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities’ (CBDR-RC) is a core principle in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) used to operationalize equity, it could be defined many ways. To date, bulk of attention has been first part this – CBDR because importance addressing responsibility. However, we propose that more robust notion RC possible, useful timely as countries are currently articulating their Nationally Determined Contributions, process expected ratchet up over time under new regime. We combine Sen Nussbaum's ‘capabilities approach’ with framework provided by UNFCCC identify five sub-elements metrics for each them. These human development, economic capacity, resilience climate impacts, governance technical innovation capacity. not proposing replacing discussions responsibili...