Incrementality and additionality: A new dimension to North-South resource transfers
- Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich (United Kingdom). School of Environmental Sciences
- Univ. of London (United Kingdom). Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
In the last four years, incrementality'' and additionality'' have emerged as new terms in the evolving lexicon of international environmental diplomacy. As Parties to the Conventions on Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Ozone Layer, industrialized states undertake to provide sufficient additional resources (the principle of additionality) to meet the incremental cost (the concept of incrementality) of measures undertaken by the developing countries to tackle global environmental problems. Issues of incrementality and additionality go to the heart of a much deeper and highly contentious debate on who should pay the costs of responding to global environmental problems; on how the payment should be made; on which agency or agencies should manage the transfers; and upon which parties should be compensated. Every sign is that if the overall North to South transfer breaks down or is retarded, then the process of implementing the aforementioned agreements may be jeopardized. This paper reviews the emergency of the two terms in international environmental politics; it pinpoints the theoretical and practical difficulties of defining and implementing them; and it assesses whether these difficulties and conflicts of opinion may, in some manner, be resolved.
- OSTI ID:
- 6576942
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940422-; CODEN: WRRVE5
- Journal Information:
- World Resource Review; (United States), Vol. 6:2; Conference: 5. global warming science and policy international conference and expo, San Francisco, CA (United States), 4-7 Apr 1994; ISSN 1042-8011
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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