The Green Party have called upon the UK government to adopt Contraction and Convergence in international climate change negotiations
Contraction and convergence, which would delegate fossil fuel use based on national population and limit the collective global output of CO2, would do much in the way of lessening human impact on climate change, Green Party has said.
Aubrey Meyer, climate change campaigner, said that “since the world’s atmosphere belongs equally to everyone if it belongs to anyone at all, the only basis on which such an agreement seems possible is that there must – eventually at least – be an equal allocation to everyone in the world”.
In response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent report, the European Greens have said that, “Policy makers around the world must show strong political will and do their utmost to reach an ambitious global climate deal in 2015”.
Co-Chair of European Green Party, Reinhard Bütikofer, said: “This wake-up call is loud and clear…governments must commit to investing in sustainable, clean technologies”.
The UK Government has yet to take a stance on the international regulation of carbon dioxide emissions.
In light of the recent IPCC report, The Green Party urges the government to extend its concern for environmental protection beyond national perimeters.