AdJUST Seminar-Webinar
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Speaker: Yann Robiou Du Pont, Utrecht University
Moderator: Ireri Hernandez Carballo, CMCC
The Paris Agreement requires countries to pledge fair and ambitious climate pledges. The scientific literature has long offered quantifications of what are fair emissions targets for countries, and is increasingly suggesting Paris aligned objectives for companies and local governments.This literature, originally derived to inform voluntary pledges, is increasingly used by courts of law to assess their sufficiency under the Paris goals and Human Rights, as under the Paris Agreement. This novel use of the literature, and the nearly negative global carbon budget calls for improvement of this literature, linking considerations of natural science, ethics, economics and law. This talk will present how this literature is used in practice and discuss outlooks for its role in the coming years.
AdJUST is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. and carried out by a transdisciplinary European consortium consisting of 9 EU partners, 2 UK associated partners and other 11 EU associated partners. The objectives of AdJUST are to achieve a step change in societal understanding of the distributive repercussions of the transition to climate neutrality, and to identify effective and actively-supported policy interventions to accompany climate action so that no-one is left behind.