The carbon account: a climate & social justice mechanism to
stop
slowly greenhouse gases. Every citizen receives a carbon budget, and companies are required to label their carbon content, thereby encouraging them to decarbonize:
Reduce allocations by 6% each year, distribute among all citizens, stimulate businesses and public services.
I choose whether to cut down on meat or air travel, and I manage my carbon budget...
Egalitarian, it values the sobriety of the most modest through a universal climate income...
How to launch such a mechanism : debate beginning from local and then launch a national vote.
Starting with needs :
Carbon counting COUNTS for the planet
Do enough, but not too much, satisfy needs, but stop all kinds of accumulation, through greater local food autonomy.
Armel Prieur
President of
Escape-jobs, author of "
Satis"
The carbon account offers a unique opportunity to actively involve citizens in implementing climate policy!
David Van Reybrouck
Historian, author of
We are colonizing the future
Laure Noualhat
Journalist, film-maker and author of "
Bifurquer par temps incertains' (" Forking in uncertain times")
Turning the resolution of the ecological question into an opportunity to activate frugal prosperity through post-growth
Dominique Méda
Paris-dauphine and Institut Veblen
We need to be able to track the carbon footprint of all citizens, without hiding behind the technical difficulties and the question of trust...
Thomas Piketty
Paris Economic School
We propose that the individual carbon quota mechanism be put to a national referendum.
Dominique Bourg
Philosopher, Fondation Zoein
