Briefing: Contraction and convergence

摘要: ‘Contraction and convergence’ is an ambitious yet widely supported plan to harmonise global greenhouse gas emissions a safe sustainable level per person within the next few decades. It was conceived in mid-1990s by Global Commons Institute (GCI) London as antidote expanding, diverging climate-changing nature of economic development. The now at core UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has been approved European Parliament many other governments July 2004 even received divine backing from Church England. GCI director Aubrey Meyer explains background defining characteristics what could prove be ultimate sustainability initiative.