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Climate Change, Intergenerational Justice and Development
Klimawandel, Generationengerechtigkeit und Entwicklung
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Abstract The subject of this paper is distributive justice in relation to financing greenhouse gas abatement. After separating the various questions of distributive justice in climate change (first section) and isolating the financing issue (second section), the paper explores whether any effective moral nor... view more
The subject of this paper is distributive justice in relation to financing greenhouse gas abatement. After separating the various questions of distributive justice in climate change (first section) and isolating the financing issue (second section), the paper explores whether any effective moral norms resolving this question already exist. It is argued that such norms still have to be constructed. As a basis for the further discussion, a criterion for moral duties is proposed, progressive norm welfarism, which takes up the constructivist idea (third section). Ethical, intuitive, moral and political considerations finally converge into a proposal for 'no harm to developing countries' (fourth section).... view less
Keywords
climate protection; social norm; climate change; distributive justice; greenhouse effect; emissions trading; generation; justice; morality; distribution impact; sustainability; Intergenerational relations; environmental protection
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
progressive norm welfarism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 88-94
Journal
Intergenerational Justice Review (2009) 3
Issue topic
Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24357/igjr.3.3.491
ISSN
2190-6335
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed