ABSTRACT
The search for fair or equitable agreements to slow global warming has become a cottage industry. Dozens of papers have proposed solutions. International negotiations to strengthen the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) regularly consider the topic. The Kyoto Protocol’s commitments for industrialized countries to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases are ‘differentiated’ to each country’s particular situation, which appears to be evidence that negotiators have taken seriously the need for fairness. Of special interest to the organizers of this workshop is whether fairness should be a major element of research programmes that employ integrated assessment models – models that allow an integrated analysis of the costs and benefits of policy options for slowing global warming. 2
