Arbeitspapier

A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for climate change

Agenda 21 required countries to develop and regularly update a national set of indicators for sustainable development. Several countries now have such sets also including separate indicators for climate change. Some of these indicators typically report global concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere or time series for global temperatures. While such indicators may give the public information about the state of the global climate, they do not provide a benchmark which makes it possible for the public to evaluate the climate policy of their government. With Kantian ethics as our point of departure, we propose a benchmark for national climate policy. The benchmark is that each nation state should act as if a global treaty on climate change were in place. This would require each nation state to carry out all green house gas mitigation projects below a certain cost. Furthermore, it would require each nation to keep their national green house gas emissions including acquisitions of emission permits from other countries within a certain limit. Both measures are relatively easy to track and can thus serve as indicators.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 718

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
Thema
Sustainable development indicators
Climate Policy
Climate Agreements

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Greaker, Mads
Stoknes, Per Espen
Alfsen, Knut H.
Ericson, Torgeir
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Statistics Norway, Research Department
(wo)
Oslo
(wann)
2012

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Greaker, Mads
  • Stoknes, Per Espen
  • Alfsen, Knut H.
  • Ericson, Torgeir
  • Statistics Norway, Research Department

Entstanden

  • 2012

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