A scalable framework for climate stabilisation that ticks all the boxes.

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Cap and Share
Drastic cuts in the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are required to avoid a climate catastrophe. An international treaty to secure such cuts will be impossible to agree unless the responsibilities involved are shared around the world on an equitable basis. Moreover, that sharing system must be robust enough to ensure that the cuts agreed actually happen. Cap and Share (C&S) is both robust and equitable. It has the additional advantage that, until it is adopted globally, it can be used by countries and regions to set their own emissions on a downward path. Cap and Share provides a framework that scales from the personal and local to the regional and global. We can start building a global system step-by-step now.

How Cap and Share works The basic ideas
Benefits of Cap and Share The details behind those ticks
Quick Guide Cap and Share in two sides of A4
In more depth Articles and briefing papers
Campaign How you can help and campaign resources
About us Some of the people involved in Cap and Share
Contact Your first port of call - Cap and Share in Britain

 

Cap and Share campaign in Ireland More
Comhar annouce major study of cap-and-share potential in Ireland More
Peter Barnes - Feasta Annual Lecture, Trinity College Dublin, 13 Nov 2007
(covers climate change and reinventing the commons, QuickTime) Video

Cap-and-share acceptability scoping research
Cap and Share has received initial funding for scoping research on the acceptability to the public, companies and government of a cap-and-share mechanism for achieving deep cuts in GHGs. This work will be carried out in January to March 2008, and we would be pleased to liaise with anyone interested in it or doing similar research. Contact us

Friday 18 to Sunday 20 January 2008
Feasta Energy Group and Cap and Share Weekend
Schumacher College, Totnes, Devon
At short notice, we are taking the opportunity of Richard Douthwaite (Feasta) and Peter Barnes (US Sky Trust) teaching at Schumacher College, along with the input of David Wasdell (Meridian Project, coupled climate change systems) to hold a joint weekend meeting of the Feasta Energy Group and Cap and Share. Cap-and-share ideas have developed substantially during 2007 and we are now looking at how we can provide a "second generation" approach for climate stabilisation to respond to accelerating climate change. For instance, this includes going beyond emissions to sequestration and early step-by-step implementation to enhance the potential for an ultimate global regime. We will also look at how cap-and-share approaches can be promoted and implemented over the next 5 years. Contact us

Cap and Share Resource Wiki for the most up to date materials
Peter Barnes How to Fight Climate Change Without Soaking the Middle Class
Peter Barnes - Carbon Capping: A Citizen's Guide pdf
Richard Douthwaite - The Economics of Responding to Climate Change pdf
Peter Barnes - Capitalism 3.0 reinventing the comons and trusts (696 KB pdf)

Peter Barnes - Who owns the sky? A climate solution that could actually work
21 November 2007, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
25 minute talk as an MP3