The Green Elephant - Carbon Rationing

CARBON RATIONING IN A CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Rationing: it’s a word—and idea—that people seem to fear and hate in equal measure. Rationing is certainly the third rail of American politics. Societies ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. Fair-shares rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and stories of gas-station lines in the 1970s. How we ration is a crucial issue in our fragile present, an era of dwindling resources and environmental crises. There are alternative ways of apportioning life’s necessities while we share and protect our planets resources. Can we limit consumption while assuring everyone a fair share? Let’s find out.

WHAT IS RATIONING?

From grain to gasoline: a brief world history of rationingEuropean countries are looking at ways to curb gas demand as they brace for further cuts in Russian supplies, raising the prospect of rationing across the continent.

Wartime rationing: How our ancestors coped in the 1940s when food was scarceRationing was a day-to-day reality for our forebears who lived through World War II, with scarcities lasting well after the conflict ended into the 1950s

Rationing: Definition, Purposes, Historical ExampleRationing is the practice of controlling the distribution of a good or service in order to cope with scarcity.

What Was It Like to Ration in DC during World War II?

Jul 8, 2022 — As a means of exploring rationing in DC during World War II, we're doing something a little different from the history articles we usually publish here on ...

Rationing: Definition, Purposes, Historical ExampleRationing is the practice of controlling the distribution of a good or service in order to cope with scarcity.

Any Way You Slice It | The New Press

CARBON RATIONING

Living the 1.5 Degree LifestyleWhy Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever by Lloyd Alter Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff. The international scienti

The Best Climate Policy You’ve Probably Never Heard OfIf cap-and-ration is a good idea, then it should occur independently to many people. It has: it’s difficult to say who came up with it first.

Towards a fair consumption space | SGR: Responsible SciencePutting people and equity at the centre of the climate discussion Lewis Akenji, Dana Vigran and Magnus Bengtsson, of the Hot or Cool Institute, outline their latest research on sustainable lifestyles. Article from Responsible Science journal, no.4; online publication: 5 June 2022

International Climate Solutions - AshdenSupporting international climate solutions in marginalised communities, creating a fairer world and bringing the worst-off closer to a low-carbon future.

The '15 minute city': connectivity and accountability as drivers

Oct 21, 2022 — Carbon rationing; getting the alternatives in place first. Urban lungs; bringing nature back into cities. The war on waste; lessons in tax and circularity.

Energy crisis: Fair rationing can provide enough for all Newsflash: we already do. The question is, how can we do it in a way that works for everybody?

Only Radical is Realistic Now: International Carbon Rationing in a Climate EmergencyThe Hot or Cool Think Piece series pushes the frontier of policy making and informs public discussion with emerging perspectives on the sustainability transition. Authors are leading thinkers with broad experience and innovative ideas.

Towards a local experiment in travel-based carbon rationing

Mar 28, 2022 — The Mobile Lives Forum is exploring the idea of using carbon rationing as an alternative to a carbon tax. Taxation is criticized as being unfair, as it weighs ...

Implementing Power Rationing in a Sensible Way

Feb 15, 2022 — Chapter 7 presents a simple rationing scheme based on energy quotas assigned to individual customers. ... Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China.

A disaggregate analysis of ‘excess’ car travel and its role in decarbonisationThis paper measures ‘excess’ car travel for its role in decarbonisation. On average, each English adult travels around 5,680 miles a year and emits 1,…

Governments face losing the battle against climate changePublic action has been key to tackling past crises but governments around the world are failing to engage their citizens on the role they can play to combat climate change.

Electricity Rationing - Why?How can electricity rationing influence the cost of operating a cooling system? To explain our questions on electricity rationing, we asked Christian.

Rational Rationing: A Price-Control Mechanism for a Persistent Supply Shock - CEEPRThe 2021 Texas power crisis, caused by a series of winter storms, led to prices that were 100 times higher […]

Attitudinal researchIn pursuit of our mission (to change the terms of the public debate about fairness, to promote the benefits of a fair society, and to inspire citizens, organisations and decision-makers to create a fairer society in the UK), we need to better understand public attitudes around key fairness issues, and in particular to explore the underlying values and beliefs that drive those attitudes.

Behaviour change or system change? How climate action is getting fudgedThe public want to reduce their environmental impact but key actions to make this possible must first come from the government.

PERSONAL CARBON ALLOWANCES

The Viability of Personal Carbon TradingBy Hunter Johnston, Staff Editor

What Are Carbon Allowances, and Why Do They Matter?Key Takeaways Carbon allowances are growing in popularity around the world, as governments explore policies for bringing down greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks ...

Can Personal Carbon Allowances Help Cities Reach Their Climate Targets?Could a focus on city dwellers to reduce individual emissions – personal carbon allowances – have value in meeting city Net Zero targets?

‘My Carbon’: An approach for inclusive & sustainable citiesThere have been developments in recent years that could help realise “My Carbon” initiatives for sustainable cities.

Needs must? Fair allocation of personal carbon allowances in mobilityPersonal carbon allowances have been of considerable interest in environmental research in the last decade, yet no policy implementations have been ad…

Introducing the Carbon Market AgeThe carbon market can play a significant role in the decarbonization of the global economy by putting a price on carbon and giving polluters an incentive to reduce their emissions.

An introduction to personal carbon trading

· Cited by 129 — and personal carbon allowances, PCA (Hillman and Fawcett, 2004). At the moment, however, none of the versions of PCT is a fully developed

Personal Carbon AllowancesClimate change is getting serious and we need to step up our pace of change. A radical but hugely effective solution would be for everyone to have a personal carbon allowance. So just like managing…

Beyond Hospitality: Should Individuals have a Personal Carbon Allowance?There is a large global inequality in carbon emissions. Per capita emissions range from less than 1 metric tonne to more than 35 tonnes1 of CO2e with a global average of roughly 4.5 tonnes per capita2. Aligning the global community to the Paris Agreement requires the per capita average to drop at 2 tonnes by 20503. Affluence and carbon footprint go hand in hand. This is particularly true for the tourism and travel sector which remains "highly income-elastic and carbon-intensive"4.

'The idea of a personal carbon budget is very complicated, but definitely worthwhile' - Erasmus MagazineIain Todd about the idea of introducing a carbon budget for every citizen. ‘We're going to need to mobilise all the resources and policies at our disposal to combat climate change'

WATER RATIONING

Water restrictions and consumption cuts - Climate-ADAPT

Rationing is associated with equitable distribution of critically limited water supplies in a way that ensure sufficient water is delivered to preserve public ...

Water-Rationing Worry Haunts US West With 40 Million at Risk (1)The federal government this week will announce the drought forecast for the arid Colorado River Basin, as well as possible cuts western states must make to conserve more water from a supply serving roughly 40 million people.

Water rationing in the West not a sustainable option

How to Deal with the Drought: the Fear of Water Rationing - Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileA group of professors and researchers at UC Chile are working together to find solutions to this problem.

From water rationing to turning off fountains: How Europe is battling droughtWater rationing and prohibitions from washing cars and watering gardens is now common across many parts of Europe.

Drought in Mexico leads to water rationing, theftWith little relief in sight, a crisis has emerged: The struggled to access a fundamental requirement for life has driven people to frustration and even acts of desperation.

FOOD WASTE / FOOD RATIONING

‘Victory is in the Kitchen’: Wartime lessons for today’s food systems?

Food Rationing: The Only Solution To Food Wastage?

Reducing the countrys waste is not something that will happen over night, ... Food rationing came into effect back in February 1918 during World War One.

From food rationing to food waste, remembering to make the most of it | The Western ProducerRemembrance Day reminds me, of course, of all the people who sacrificed their lives in wars, so that we might live better. But it also reminds me of the

When I read about food waste, I long for the return of rationingMichele Hanson: Nobody does as they're told unless they're forced to, so if we are to stop throwing away 15m tonnes of food each year, the state must act