Science dictates that we need a 100% reduction in carbon emissions. Here's how to achieve it - writing for Green Futures, Oliver Tickell makes the case for controlling greenhouse gases ‘close to the source' via a groundbreaking new worldwide permits auction.
Green Lifeline - Monbiot previews Kyoto2 (the book) in The Guardian and concludes that the K2 proposals "could represent a classic Keynesian solution to economic crisis. The $1, $2 or even $5 trillion the system would cost is used to kick-start a green industrial revolution, a new New Deal not that different from the original one (whose most successful component was Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, which protected forests and farmland)."
Kyoto2 - the book - Zed Books is to publish Kyoto2 in July 2008. This will be the definitive exposition of the Kyoto2 proposals. Find out more ...
Carbon Scenarios: Blue Sky Thinking for a Green Future The Stockholm Network's investigation of climate policy options puts a "Step Change" solution based on Kyoto2 at the head of the pack, winning on both effectiveness and economic benefit. Find out more ...
Kyoto2 and Forestry - a short paper initially written as notes for presentations to the Oxford Forestry Society on 8 May 2007, and to the WWF-UK Forest Team on 27 July 2007, highlighting the solutions offered by the Kyoto2 approach to solve the problems of deforestation and forest degradation.
Resurgence magazine presents the Kyoto2 proposals in the context of the Stern Report in Clarifying Climate Chaos, March / April 2007.
The Kyoto2 proposals are set forth in Climate change: the last chance.
On the day the IPCC publishes its Fourth Assessment Report, BBC News Green Room features Kyoto2 in Climate change: Time to get serious.
The Ecologist introduces Kyoto2 in its January 2007 edition in Making preservation pay. Read the article and join the debate also hosted by The Ecologist.
Welcome to Kyoto2.org
Kyoto2 is a framework for a new Climate Protocol under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for 2012 and beyond.
It aims to be:
- global - its scope is global and all countries are included within the framework
- economically efficient - using auction and open markets for optimum allocation of resources
- equitable - addressing the needs of the poor, and mitigating the impacts of climate change
- practical - designed to minimise accounting and compliance overheads
- acceptable - by seeking to address the needs and concerns of all countries
The Kyoto2 paper is now available as in 3 parts
- Kyoto2 summary (definitive version of 1 April 2008)
- Existing approaches to regulating greenhouse gases (now out-of-date version of 31 January 2007)
- The Kyoto2 proposals (now out-of-date version of 31 January 2007)
