{"id":28733,"date":"2010-07-22T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:25:58","slug":"3733-equity-begins-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/3733-equity-begins-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity begins at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (23 July), ministers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BASIC_countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BASIC countries<\/a> \u2013 the powerful grouping of developing-country heavyweights comprising Brazil, South Africa, India and China \u2013 are to <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics\/nation\/Rio-BASIC-meet-to-invite-other-developing-nations\/articleshow\/6044959.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meet<\/a> for the third time since the bloc\u2019s formation prior to last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/3447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summit<\/a> in Copenhagen. The <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/NEWS\/Environment\/Global-Warming\/BASIC-meet-on-climate-equity-in-June\/articleshow\/5884090.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sole theme<\/a> of a special session taking place during their high-profile deliberations in Rio de Janeiro will be familiar to anyone involved in international climate-change negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate equity\u201d has a long and recurrent history in talks to agree a global framework for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to levels that are deemed safe by climate scientists. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyoto_Protocol#Common_but_differentiated_responsibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">principles<\/a> of \u201chistorical responsibilities\u201d, \u201crespective capabilities\u201d and the \u201cright to development\u201d are engrained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/2860.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/a> (UNFCCC) and have been instrumental in cementing the dividing line between what is expected of industrialised countries and their poorer, developing counterparts. This dictates, rightfully, that rich nations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/3410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">should take the lead<\/a> in cutting their carbon emissions and provide the finance, technology and capacity-building support to enable poor countries to leapfrog carbon-intensive growth in favour of cleaner, more sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>However, putting this burden-sharing concept into practice remains contentious (and, given <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/5869105.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doubts<\/a> over the future of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyoto_Protocol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyoto Protocol<\/a>, the prospects of managing it bleak). The purpose of the BASIC meeting will be to shore up support for \u201cclimate equity\u201d after what many developing countries considered to be a frontal attack on the very principle at Copenhagen \u2013 namely, the not so subtle attempts by the Danish hosts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/dec\/08\/copenhagen-climate-summit-disarray-danish-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ditch the two negotiating tracks<\/a> in favour of a single all-encompassing agreement, in the quest to tie major emerging economies such as China and India into taking on tangible emissions cuts.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, while an equitable division of labour <i>between <\/i>countries seemingly remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/english.peopledaily.com.cn\/90001\/90776\/90883\/6977772.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prerequisite<\/a> for achieving any sort of agreed outcome at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-18\/cancun-climate-talks-get-dim-prognosis-for-success-update1-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canc\u00fan<\/a> and beyond, the principles of fairness and social justice have received relatively scant attention in climate-change policymaking at the domestic level. Now analysts are beginning to think in terms of national equity and, specifically, how climate-change policies impact different social groups within countries.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are the poorest individuals, households and communities in society <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/news-from-will-brownsberger\/web\/how-does-carbon-footprint-correlate-with-income-level?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">least responsible<\/a> for mounting emissions and typically more exposed to heat waves, flooding and the many other possible impacts of a changing climate, they are also particularly vulnerable to the indirect effects of global warming: namely, the policy responses drawn up by governments to curb carbon-dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n<p>In developed countries, consumer-funded mechanisms are playing an increasingly important role in the policy mix to meet carbon reduction and renewable-energy targets. But while the logic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.global-greenhouse-warming.com\/carbon-price.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pricing carbon<\/a> to simultaneously curb demand and generate revenue for climate-friendly policies is an attractive one to policymakers, it tends to lead to regressive effects of the first order.<\/p>\n<p>Take the energy sector. In the United Kingdom, the outgoing government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decc.gov.uk\/Media\/viewfile.ashx?FilePath=White%20Papers%5CUK%20Low%20Carbon%20Transition%20Plan%20WP09%5C1_20090727143501_e_@@_uklctpanalysis.PDF&amp;filetype=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimated<\/a> that the suite of low-carbon energy policies set out in its Low-carbon Transition Plan would cumulatively increase domestic energy bills by an average of \u00a3125 (US$186) each year by 2020 compared with 2009 prices. Since poorer households spend a greater proportion of their income on heating and powering their homes, racking up the costs of electricity and gas will hit their pockets the hardest. So for instance, while the flagship <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Union_Emission_Trading_Scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Union Emissions Trading Scheme<\/a> (ETS) has led to higher energy bills for all consumers as suppliers pass on the costs of buying ETS permits, poorer households, as a proportion of their income, pay more.<\/p>\n<p>Measures that indirectly increase the price of energy, such as requirements for electricity companies to source a proportion of supply from renewables (the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renewables_Obligation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Renewables Obligation<\/a> as it is known in the United Kingdom) and roll out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smart_meter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smart meters<\/a>, are all the more regressive as they are funded by passing costs on to consumers at a flat rate.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing a carbon tax \u2013 a measure that has been endorsed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/03\/david-cameron-carbon-tax-coal-gas-electricity-power-plants.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/economy_detail.aspx?title=Zero_Carbon_Britain_%E2%80%93_Taking_a_Global_Lead&amp;pPK=bb5f4eb7-cf45-4d89-897c-5315e6cb18cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parties<\/a> in the new UK <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKTRE64A54B20100511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coalition government<\/a>, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats \u2013 would, on the face of it, have similar repercussions for the least well off. Modelling carried out using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippr.org.uk\/research\/teams\/project.asp?id=3189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax-benefit calculator<\/a> created by UK think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) suggest that a levy on domestic fuels including electricity, set at \u00a325 (US$37) per tonne of carbon dioxide, would, as a proportion of income, hit the poorest households in the United Kingdom the hardest \u2013 taking 1.07% off their average weekly income before housing costs and 1.68% after housing costs (see table below). Put another way, those in the lowest income decile would, in proportional terms, lose almost four times as much from a carbon tax as those in the highest decile.<\/p>\n<p>Undeniably, these sorts of measures would be more socially acceptable if increased energy costs for low earners were offset elsewhere in the tax system, for instance through cuts in VAT. Poverty campaign groups might also be more enthusiastic if the benefits of climate policies were shared out in a more progressive manner. In some cases they have been. The previous government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warmfront.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warm Front<\/a> programme has helped to bring energy efficiency retrofitting to low-income households, as has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettergeneration.com\/grants-and-funding\/carbon-emissions-reduction-target.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carbon Emissions Reduction Target<\/a> (CERT), which obliges energy providers to make carbon savings by fitting insulation and renewing heating systems in the poorest homes.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitariffs.co.uk\/?gclid=CPKF8IKFuaICFRg8lAod-yoQ4w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feed-in tariff<\/a> for microrenewables, which became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.building4change.com\/page.jsp?id=347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operational<\/a> in the United Kingdom in April this year, is realistically-speaking, only accessible to households that can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/05\/treachery-or-common-sense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">afford the high upfront costs<\/a> of installing solar photovoltaic panels. The same is true of electric cars, highly-efficient home energy appliances and other expensive green innovations that promise net savings, but which currently remain the preserve of the better-off. In the case of the feed-in tariff, payouts for generated electricity are funded from energy bills, meaning that poorer households are paying disproportionately more towards a scheme that they are unable to benefit from. The result: a double whammy of disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>At the regional level, climate policy needs simultaneously to take steps to curtail the pain and maximise the gain in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Proactive and well-targeted government policies to stimulate clean energy technology markets promise new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatch.org\/node\/5404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">job creation<\/a> and an opportunity to diversify local economies and it is essential that these opportunities are targeted foremost at those regions most at risk from decarbonisation, such as, in the case of the UK, the few remaining industrial and manufacturing hubs of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_East_England#Economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">north England<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">south Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the tough times ahead for poorer communities in the United Kingdom, and many other countries, given the impending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2010\/may\/23\/northern-england-government-spending-cuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cuts in public spending<\/a>, blanket emissions-reduction policies cannot be left to mirror the mistakes of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_history_of_the_United_Kingdom#1979.E2.80.931990:_the_Thatcher_era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1980s economic restructuring<\/a> and further exacerbate Britain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cep.lse.ac.uk\/pubs\/download\/cp277.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marked regional disparities<\/a>. Instead, government should support innovation in manufacturing to help at-risk firms lower the carbon footprint of their operations, increase efficiency and protect jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Just as equity will be crucial to a successful global emissions reduction settlement, as BASIC ministers will reiterate at their meeting this week, ensuring fairness is at the heart of national climate-change policy should be a key priority for governments. The challenge for climate progressives is to develop new thinking and solutions that rapidly and effectively reduce emissions but do so in a way that ensures the costs are not disproportionately borne by lower-income groups, either within developed countries such as the United Kingdom or developing nations. Yet, if the conventional way of doing climate policy is anything to go by, we have yet to truly grasp the nettle when it comes to national climate equity.<br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>David Nash is a researcher in international climate change at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr).<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>Homepage image from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/england.shelter.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shelter<\/a><i> <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians must put fairness at the heart of domestic \u2013 not just global \u2013 climate strategies, argues David Nash, or the poor will end up bearing a disproportionate 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