Journal
ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 212-219Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1248.2012.00212
Keywords
Business as Usual; baseline scenario; assessment of mitigation efforts
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation [71173131]
- National Program on Key Basic Research Projects of China [2010CB95500]
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Business as Usual (BaU) scenario in developing countries has been a debated issue in climate change negotiations. This paper analyzes different definitions of BaU and points out that the major difference among these definitions is how to set the starting point of BaU projections, that is the so called base year. Some international institutions use current policy scenarios to project a BaU trajectory of developing countries. Such definition will lead to an underestimation of BaU emissions of developing countries and thus an underestimation of mitigation efforts. This paper concludes with a suggestion to use a without policy scenario with a clear base year as definition of BaU. Such a definition will set an objective benchmark to assess mitigation efforts of developing countries.
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