Compensation for atmospheric appropriation

Abstract Research on carbon inequalities shows that some countries are overshooting their fair share of the remaining budget and hold disproportionate responsibility for climate breakdown. Scholars argue owe compensation or reparations to undershooting atmospheric appropriation climate-related damages. Here we develop a procedure quantify level owed in ‘net zero’ scenario where all decarbonize by 2050, using prices from IPCC scenarios limit global warming 1.5 °C tracking cumulative emissions 1960 across 168 countries. We find even this ambitious scenario, North would overshoot its collective equality-based factor three, appropriating half South’s process. calculate US$192 trillion be South shares with an average disbursement those US$940 per capita year. also examine countries’ 350 ppm 2 budgets earlier later starting years (1850 1992) comparison.