Equity principles: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:40, 6 May 2014

Label:	Equity principles
Description:	General concepts of distributive justice or fairness used in effort sharing approaches. Three key equity principles are: Responsibility (historical contribution to warming); capability (ability to pay for mitigation); and equality (equal emissions allowances per capita).
Default unit:	Percentage (%)
Variable type:	driver
Driver group:	Environmental and other policies
Values based on:	Expert judgement

Drivers are described in the Drivers component.

Variable is input of model component(s):

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 {{VariableTemplate
 |Label=Equity principles
-|Description=Effort-sharing approaches are based on equity principles, i.e. general concepts of distributive justice or fairness. Three major equity principles are: Responsibility (historical contribution to warming), Capability (ability to pay for mitigation) and Equality (equal emissions allowances per capita).
+|Description=General concepts of distributive justice or fairness used in effort sharing approaches. Three key equity principles are: Responsibility (historical contribution to warming); capability (ability to pay for mitigation); and equality (equal emissions allowances per capita).
 |Unit=Percentage (%)
 |VariableType=driver