Climate Responsibility as a Distributional Issue

Abstract: It is evident that the problem of global climate change is closely bound up with questions of distributional justice, both intra- and intergenerational. Questions of justice are raised by two kinds of burdens: reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases, and the financial and knowledge transfers necessary to enable the poorest countries to compensate the harms suffered by the ongoing process. Both burdens involve considerable costs and opportunity costs. On the backdrop of a prioritarian version of utilitarianism, it is argued that the answer should be a split strategy. While reduction of emissions should be based on the polluter-pays principle, obligations of compensation should be based on the criteria of overall economic strength.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Climate Responsibility as a Distributional Issue ; volume:32 ; number:1 ; year:2010 ; pages:25-37 ; extent:13 ; Analyse & Kritik ; 32, Heft 1 (2010), 25-37 (gesamt 13)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Birnbacher, Dieter

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1515/auk-2010-0102
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404171628079.284246040262
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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