Human development, greenhouse gas emissions and sub-national mitigation burdens: a Brazilian perspective.

ABSTRACT: International frameworks for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation usually disregard country-specific inequalities for the allocation of mitigation burdens. This may hinder low developed regions in a country from achieving development in a socioeconomic perspective, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of eradicating poverty (SDG1) and hunger (SDG2). We use observed data (1991-2010) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂eq) emissions and a sub-national human development index (MicroHDI, range [0, 1]) for Brazilian microregions to design a framework where regional mitigation burdens are proportional to the MicroHDI, without compromising national mitigation pledges. According to our results, the less developed Brazilian regions have not been basing their development in emission-i

SUBMITTER: Ambrosio G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350932 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature