Contraction & Convergence
March 25, 2009 09:46PM
Contraction & Convergence (C&C) offers an intellectual framework for reaching international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. C&C was developed in the 1990s by the Aubrey Meyer of the UK-based Global Commons Institute.
Contraction describes a path of emissions reductions to reach a safe level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Convergence describes a narrowing of the current emissions gap among the world's peoples — to gradually achieve equitable per capita shares of global greenhouse gas production.
C&C is described on Wikipedia and by Aubrey Meyer in his essay, “Contraction and Convergence: the proportionate response to climate change.”
