ASIA-EUROPE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Second Roundtable: “Reinforcing Asia-Europe Cooperation on Climate Change”

This presentation consists of two pillars. First, a result of a review study on existing proposals on post-2012 is briefly explained. According to a study organized at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) which reviewed more than 100 literature on post-2012, about 80 % of all the proposals were being made by authors in the EU or those in the U.S. Among proposals from authors in the EU member countries, the most popular type of study was a way to allocate emissions to all countries including non-Annex I countries. Authors in the U.S. preferred elaboration of international emissions trading rules. Authors in non-Annex I countries considered “sustainable development ” should be in line with any kind of climate policy. The second half of this presentation is an introduction to a research project on post-2012 organized by NIES and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan. Following up on the result of the review, integration of diverged views of countries is essential to achieve an international agreement. The NIES-IGES team considered that more “incentives ” are indispensable in a post-2012 multilateral regime. Each participant of the project have now initiated a study on a plausible post-2012 regime that involves mechanisms to stimulate incentives of countries to participate. 1