Global Commons Institute
The Global Commons Institute (GCI) was founded in Great Britain in 1990 by a group led by the author and climate activist Aubrey Meyer to develop and disseminate concepts for global climate justice . The term Global Commons stands for global public goods , here related to the earth's atmosphere .
In three years of activity, the London-based institute developed the model of contraction and convergence of carbon dioxide emissions as a way of limiting climate change . The model is considered to be the theoretical preparatory work for the political concept of climate justice. Many of the founders were members of the Green Party .
The founding declaration of “Contraction and Convergence”, published in 1991, was first to sign up to 50 members of the British Parliament from all political groups including Tony Benn , Richard Body , Mark Bonham Carter , Simon Hughes , Ken Livingstone , Dawn Primarolo , Clare Short , David Stoddart and Jim Wallace , the party leaders Paddy Ashdown , Margaret Ewing and Charles Kennedy , the EU members Kenneth Collins and Wilfried Telkämper and the German members of the Bundestag Petra Kelly and Hermann Scheer , as well as the atmospheric researcher Paul Crutzen and the author Susan George .
Individual evidence
- ^ Written evidence submitted by the Global Commons Institute . UK Parliament . June 13, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
- ↑ Global Commons Institute
- ↑ Contraction & Convergence ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), founding declaration of June 18, 1991, accessed on June 8, 2015