Lobbying for aligned climate policies + How should the world share the carbon emission budget?

We will work on this exercise during 3 classes (class #11+ part of class #14 + class #19).

Background on climate targets and negotiations :

The Paris agreement says we should stay far below 2°C – preferably close to 1.5°C. This would require many profound changes. Among these are cutting carbon emissions by at least half - for the 1.5°C target - by 2030 (at the global level). Emissions vary a lot from region to region (see table) and how much each region should reduce or limit their growth of emissions is an open question.

World total emissions 2016 (rounded to closest integer, in GtCO2*)

	CO2* emissions	% CO2* Emissions
China	10	43,5%
USA	5	21,7%
Latin America & Caribbean	2	8,7%
India	2	8,7%
European Union	3	13,0%
Africa	1	4,3%
Total of Regions above	23	100%

Part 1 (Class 11) - Preparing to lobby Swedish/EU chief climate negotiator + Finding a fair distribution of the carbon budget

Concepts needed to understand the exercise and be able to treat it systematically will be introduced. More details of the exercise itself will be introduced in class. In class group work will be performed. The live course session on zoom will be on the 10th of Feb at 9:00-11:45 AM Swedish time. The Sweden based and the Kenyan based groups will work partly in parallel and partly together.

On the 10th we will work in smaller groups (within the "lobbying groups") to consider aspects of fairness regarding how large emissions the country or regions listed above should get to emit by 2030 - all in the framed setting of preparing to lobby the Swedish/EU climate negotiator.

Part 1.5 (part of Class 14) - Lobbying the Swedish/EU climate negotiator + Guest seminar on International Climate Negotiations

On the 17th of February, you will virtually meet Anders Turesson, the (former) Swedish/EU chief climate negotiator, and one part of this session will be dedicated to allowing for the representatives from our "lobbying consortium" to get to try to convince him in line with the conclusions of the Part 1 (Feb 10) collaborative session between the two "lobbying groups".
The other part will be a guest seminar and Q&A on International Climate Negotiations and how it is to work as a climate change negotiator.

Part 2 (Class 19) - Comparing views on a fair sharing of the carbon budget + What are the promises, possibilities and demands ahead?

In class 19 (March 3) you get to attempt to reason, around what a fair climate deal is, from the viewpoint of students from a couple of other countries. We will then compare your reasoning with how the students from the other countries actually have reasoned. This is followed by discussion and reflection around aspects of trying to take someone else's perspective.

For the second half of part 2 we will discuss the promises, possibilities, actions and demands (through updated NDCs etc) that different countries are putting forward.