France's Climate Fair Share

This report aims to gauge France's fair share of the global response to the climate emergency, starting from the recognition that equity is important – in fact, necessary – for addressing climate change. In the first instance, the report focuses on mitigation, but acknowledges that an equitable approach to adaptation, loss and damage, just transitions and so forth is of course equally important. To that end, it also calculates what fraction of the global climate finance need could be argued to be France's fair share and provides an approach, and results, to gauge the amount of finances that would be required to fulfill this fair share. Overall, the report uses a flexible and transparent framework for equitable effort sharing that is drawn directly from the core equity principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The analysis is done using the Climate Equity Reference Calculator, an online tool and database that allows users to select specific equity-related settings relating to responsibility, capacity and other key parameters, and then to use straightforward, standard quantitative indicators to calculate the implied national fair shares of the global mitigation effort. The analysis is based on a specific input selection informed by ethical and empirical considerations that are discussed in more detail within the report (results for sensitivity cases with different ethical considerations are also discussed). This approach allows the report to contrast the mitigation target and climate finance pledges adopted by France with its fair share, and to articulate what France should do in addition to its existing pledge to be in line with its moral obligations. Ce rapport est disponible en français aussi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.259550