Equity and justice in global warming policy

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Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such as the international Kyoto Protocol, post-Kyoto negotiations, regional initiatives, and unilateral actions. Although most studies on climate change policies in economics have considered efficiency aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive justice, both within and across generations, but in this paper we survey only studies on the intragenerational aspect, i.e.., within a generation. We cover several domains including the international, regional, national, sectoral and inter-personal, and examine aspects such as the distribution of burdens from climate change, climate change policy negotiations in general, implementation of climate agreements using tradable emission permits, and the uncertainty of alternatives to emission reductions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Memorandum ; No. 2008,21

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Externalities ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies ; Public Goods ; Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics: General
• Subject: Economics of climate change ; intragenerational equity ; distributive justice ; Klimaschutz ; Internationale Umweltpolitik ; Emissionshandel ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Intertemporale Allokation ; Umweltökonomik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kverndokk, Snorre ; Rose, Adam
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Oslo, Department of Economics
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/47310
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