@techreport{SterkBeuermannLuhmannetal.2013, author = {Sterk, Wolfgang and Beuermann, Christiane and Luhmann, Hans-Jochen and Mersmann, Florian and Thomas, Stefan and Wehnert, Timon}, title = {Input to the European Commission stakeholder consultation on the {"}2015 international climate change agreement: shaping international climate policy beyond 2020{"} by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy : stakeholder input}, institution = {Wuppertal Institut f{\"u}r Klima, Umwelt, Energie for Climate Environment and Energy}, address = {Wuppertal}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-49279}, pages = {24}, year = {2013}, abstract = {As part of the discussion on a new international climate agreement, which is supposed to be concluded by 2015, the European Commission conducted a stakeholder consultation, to which the Wuppertal Institute contributed. The Wuppertal Institute suggests that Parties should revisit the widely shared assumption that there is a trade-off between climate protection and economic well-being. The problem is not so much the macro-economic outlook. The problem is that climate policy causes substantial distributional impacts and thus naturally leads to resistance. The Wuppertal Institute recommends to reconsider the political wisdom of the quantity-based approach that climate policy has so far been based on. As long as emissions are seen as inextricably linked to economic well-being, framing commitments in terms of emission reductions directly triggers the perspective of seeing climate protection as an economic loss. Commitments should ideally be multi-dimensional. Possible types of commitments to consider may include scaling up certain climate-friendly technologies, improving energy efficiency, limiting fossil fuel use and fossil fuel extraction, or emission price commitments. The strongest mobilisation of political support might perhaps be achieved by framing commitments as a joint international undertaking to provide universal access to sustainable energy services by a specific date.}, language = {en} }