‘Contraction and convergence’ is an ambitious yet widely supported plan to harmonise global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe and sustainable level per person within the next few decades. It was conceived in the mid-1990s by the Global Commons Institute (GCI) in London as an antidote to the expanding, diverging and climate-changing nature of global economic development. The plan is now at the core of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has been approved by the European Parliament and many other governments and in July 2004 even received divine backing from the Church of England. GCI director Aubrey Meyer explains the background and defining characteristics of what could prove to be the ultimate sustainability initiative.
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A. Lee Meyer (2004) studied this question.