Rimu Atkinson

(amount of emissions required to get to 350 ppm / population of the earth) = allowed emissions per capita

allowed emissions per capita * number of people in country = country's future emissions level

for each country
	country's current emissions level - country's future emissions level = required cuts per country
end

Everyone in the world has the same right to pollute as much as anyone else. It makes no difference which side of a line on a map that they live, because the atmosphere is global. Read more

Hi

I oppose the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill, mostly because of the intensity based allocation. Intensity based allocation offers polluters little incentive to reduce emissions, instead it merely provides an incentive not to emit any more (as a ratio of production) than they do already. So if production goes up then emissions can also, as long as emissions only go up by the same amount. Further, when this happens the taxpayer will pick up the tab for the extra emissions as this ETS only allocates carbon within NZ and we (the country as a whole) will still need to meet our international obligations. Read more