HISTORICAL

In embryo since the 1990s, the mechanism was described by Pierre Calame, by David Fleming, by Eric Vidalenc, by Yannick Roudaut, by Mathilde Szuba, by Armel Prieur, by David Van Reybrouck, by Martin Hirsch …and on Wikipedia

The theoretical aspects of our mechanism were developed by Pierre Calame under the name of individual carbon quotas, as opposed to industrial quotas also called “rights to pollute”. The project came to him under the influence of the Indian ecologist Anil Agarwal who asked in 1980 “who owns the carbon sinks?” (good question, right?)
Pierre Calame detailed it in his books “Essay on Oeconomy” in 2009 and then his “Small Treatise on Oeconomy” in 2018. The latter can be found online.

In 2020 Pierre Calame detailed the principle in the booklet “Carbon Account” which can be downloaded here:

Founding Text

The best summary appears at the conclusion of the climate conferences conducted from February to April 2020: Climate conference

These debates highlighted five criteria for the effectiveness of any mechanism aimed at curbing climate chaos:

1-guarantee progress from year to year

2-integrate all greenhouse gas responsibility, both through what is imported and through local emissions

3-avoid any social injustice

4-involve all private and public, collective and individual actors

5- principle of least constraint which contributes to the legitimacy of public action.

In addition to the work of Pierre Calame, additional work has been carried out in England by David Flemming and Mayer Hillman, in France by Eric Vidalenc, by Yannick Roudaut, by Mathilde Szuba… The English movement is led by Carbon Watchdog became EcoCore and its manager Adam Hardy.

Armel Prieur made a pamphlet about it entitled COUNT for a story of a possible future in 2050 and completes it with a novel, Satis, published by Geste Editions. The son of farmers and sensitive to nuisances (which made him choose to specialize in water treatment and nuisances at his engineering school in Poitiers – ESIP), he has not left the climate cause since the famous debate by Haroun Tazieff in 1979.

It’s not easy to make carbon descent tangible! A monument is proposed in the center of Paris, the www.decarbometer.fr: to support…

Partners and allies:

The Escape-jobs association, an employment-based approach to protect the social justice characteristic of the carbon accounting mechanism, and its practical applications,

Citego, for Cities, Territories and Governance, this think tank provides a considerable resource in action sheets indexed in a database of more than a thousand documents, accessible online,

The Climate Allocation Association, a group emanating from the Shifters (activist branch of the Shift Project), it is organized as a developer of experiments and in project management.

THE Decarbonauts, at the initiative of the CRD (partner for the renewal of democracy), the Décarbonautes are preparing a co-decision assembly composed of citizens drawn by lot.

THE Civic Pact, with the aim of jointly inventing a desirable future, the multi-regional association initiated with the CFDT the development of the Pact of the Power to Live, now joined by 38 organizations.

and Ar Nevez, Ecological Renaissance, Wikigreen, Labos1point5, EcoCore, Climate Chance, Act for the Climate, Citizens for the Climate, United for the Climate, CPIE, La Fabrique des Transitions…