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1.
AGENDA
GETTING THE QUESTIONS RIGHT
QUESTION: What is the question to which net zero is supposed to be the answer?
UNILATERALISATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
VERSION ONE: Carbon production on a territorial basis
VERSION TWO: Conditional carbon production on a territorial basis
VERSION THREE: Carbon consumption on a territorial basis
2.
GETTING THE QUESTIONS RIGHT
• Climate is global, not national
• Carbon emissions are location–independent
• Greatest increases in emissions will be in Africa, India, China, Brazil, Indonesia etc.
• The story of the post-1990 increases have been dominated by China, focussed on coal and energy-
intensive exports
So, the broad question is:
• What is the most efficient way of reducing global emissions?
And the narrow question is:
• How can the British cease to cause further climate change?
3.
UNILATERALISM
• What is the purpose of unilateralism?
• Does it make any difference if a small country (UK) or a de-industrialising area
(EU) reduces its terrestrial production emissions?
• The argument by example
• The argument for moral goods
• The argument for an economic growth perspective
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