Climate change mitigation and intergenerational justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4329151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fabian Schuppert (0000-0002-0460-4835, ETH Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 303-321 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2011.573351 |
| OpenAlex | W2067160116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 31 |
Existing climate change mitigation policies are particularly concerned with the reconciliation of two seemingly conflicting aims: environmental protection and economic efficiency. The normative principles underlying these policies meanwhile focus on two central ideas: fair burden-sharing and agents' responsibility. However, both existing policy instruments and their supporting philosophical principles are highly problematic in terms of intergenerational justice and truly effective climate change mitigation. Three competing conceptions for allocating and distributing the burdens of climate change mitigation (cap-and-trade schemes, carbon emission taxes, and personal ecological space quotas) and their compatibility with principles of intra- and intergenerational justice are analysed and evaluated. None of the proposed instruments is able to satisfy the demands of effective mitigation and egalitarian justice on its own, which suggests that existing proposals for the distribution of emission rights and climate change-related costs need to be supported by a thicker account of intergenerational justice
Business · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Climate justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental justice · Environmental resource management · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Natural resource economics · Normative · Political science · Public economics · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Law · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Ecology
Environmental Sustainability
Emergency and Disaster Management Justice
What do researchers mean when talking about justice? An empirical review of justice narratives in global change research
Intergenerational Ethics and Climate Change
Beyond the national resource privilege
Realpolitik in the Anthropocene
A Climate for Justice? Faith-based Advocacy on Climate Change at the United Nations
Climate Injustices Have Multiplied over Time
Regional climate policy networks and media visibility
It Can't Just Be the Younger People”
Listen to me!’
Egalitarianism across Generations
Food justice for all
Knowledge and Concern for Sea‐Level Rise in an Urban Environmental Justice Community
Flexibility for intergenerational justice in climate resilience decision-making
Vacation untouchable – a deconstruction of the liberal ‘right to tourism’
Social Equity
Big dilemmas, little time
Conceptualizing energy democracy
Changing the story? The discourse of ecological modernisation in the European Union
Rawls, the Well-Ordered Society and Intergenerational Justice
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action
Climate change ethics, rights, and policies
The politics of carbon markets
The future of 'environmental' policy in the Anthropocene
What is grandfathering
Climate change, national politics and grassroots action
Climate ethics
Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
Allocating Ecological Space
Thomas Pogge’s Global Resources Dividend
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
The Morality of Freedom
Reasons and Persons
The EU emissions trading scheme
Implementing EU emissions trading
Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change
Revisiting carrying capacity
Distributive Justice and Climate Change. The Allocation of Emission Rights
Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice
The Role of Carbon Taxes in Adjusting to Global Warming
Being Fair to Future People
Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions
Distributing the burdens of climate change
Human rights, climate change, and discounting
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |