Distributing the burdens of climate change
By E. Page. 2008
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Global climate change raises many questions for environmental political theorists. This article focuses on the question of identifying the agents that should bear the financial burden of preventing dangerous climate change. Identifying in a fair way the agents that should take the lead in climate mitigation and adaptation, as well as the precise burdens that these parties must bear, will be a key aspect of the next generation of global climate policies. After a critical review of four rival approaches to burden sharing, the paper argues that only a principled and philosophically robust reconciliation of at least three of these (‘contribution to problem’, ‘ability to pay’ and ‘beneficiary pays’) can generate a satisfactory mix of theoretical coherence and practical application.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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- An ethical approach to climate adaptation finance (2010, background): “…the difficult distinction between their anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic nature, inadequate knowledge about the causes and effects of climate change, its complicated applicability to collective entities such as states, and to future generations (Caney, 2005; Page, 2008; Miller, forthcoming).”
- Consumption‐based carbon accounting: does it have a future? (2017, background): “This idea relates directly to the capability or ‘ability to pay’ principle, according to which developed countries should shoulder a greater quota of mitigation cost burdens due to their greater levels of wealth and capacity to act.(48) Developed countries, in contrast to their developing country co”
- The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, background): “At the same time, fossil fuel consumption increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations with important impacts on the global climate (Page, 2008).”
- Carbon footprint: current methods of estimation (2011, background): “In order to comply with 2◦C target, the atmospheric stock of GHGs needs to be stabilized below 550 ppm in terms of carbon dioxide equivalents, of which 430 ppm has been attained in 2007 (Page 2008).”