Climate justice and historical emissions /

This volume investigates who can be considered responsible for historical emissions and their consequences, and how and why this should matter for the design of a just global climate policy. The authors discuss the underlying philosophical issues of responsibility for historical emissions, the unjus...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Meyer, Lukas H. (Editor), Sanklecha, Pranay (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: on the significance of historical emissions for climate ethics / Lukas H. Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha
  • Climate ethics, affirmative action and unjust enrichment / David Heyd
  • Historical responsibility and climate change / Janna Thompson
  • Historical emissions: does ignorance matter? / Daniel Butt
  • How legal systems deal with issues of responsibility for past harmful behavior / Daniel A. Farber
  • Asking beneficiaries to pay for past pollution / Anja Karnein
  • Benefiting from unjust acts and benefiting from injustice: historical emissions and the beneficiary pays principle / Brian Berkey
  • A luck-based moral defense of grandfathering / Rudolf Schuessler
  • In defense of emissions egalitarianism? / Christian Baatz and Konrad Ott
  • In the name of political possibility: a new proposal for thinking about the role and relevance of historical greenhouse gas emissions / Sarah Kenehan
  • Right to development and historical emissions: a perspective from the particularly vulnerable countries / Mizan R. Khan.