Rimini Protocol
The Rimini Protocol (later renamed the Uppsala Protocol ; recently also known as the Oil Depletion Protocol ) is a proposal by the geologist Colin J. Campbell for a global, cooperative rationing system to reduce the production, consumption and import of crude oil in order to reduce the worldwide increase in oil To bring the demand for crude oil into a more or less balanced equilibrium with the gradually scarcer and therefore more expensive stocks. The proposal is intended to mitigate the possible dramatic consequences of the so-called peak oil phenomenon.
To achieve this goal, the oil- importing countries would have to cut their imports as their oil reserves decline. Correspondingly, the oil-exporting nations would also have to reduce their oil exports. This would mean that the oil price would remain high, but stable and therefore calculable. This would create a price environment for crude oil that would allow all countries to adjust to the inevitable and foreseeable future without oil.
literature
- Colin J. Campbell , Frauke Liesenborghs, Jörg Schindler: Oil change! The end of the petroleum age and the setting of the course for the future. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-24321-X ( dtv 24321 Premium ).
- Richard Heinberg: The Oil Depletion Protocol. A plan to avert oil wars, terrorism, and economic collapse. New Society Publishers, Gabriola BC 2006, ISBN 0-86571-563-7 .