Climate Change Justice (eBook)

Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach (Autoren)

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2010
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3440-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Eric A. Posner and David Weisbach teach at the University of Chicago Law School.

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A provocative contribution to the climate justice debateClimate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should-indeed, must-directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative and original argument of Climate Change Justice. Eric Posner and David Weisbach strongly favor both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice. But they make a powerful case that the best-and possibly only-way to get an effective climate treaty is to exclude measures designed to redistribute wealth or address historical wrongs against underdeveloped countries.In clear language, Climate Change Justice proposes four basic principles for designing the only kind of climate treaty that will work-a forward-looking agreement that requires every country to make greenhouse-gas reductions but still makes every country better off in its own view. This kind of treaty has the best chance of actually controlling climate change and improving the welfare of people around the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 8 line illus. 11 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Abatement Cost • Agriculture • Aid • americans • Auction • Bargaining Power • behalf • beneficiary • bribery • Calculation • Carbon dioxide • Carbon offset • Carbon Tax • Cass Sunstein • Clean Development Mechanism • Climate • Climate Action • climate change • Climate Change Agreement • Climate Change Mitigation • climate sensitivity • Collective responsibility • Common But Differentiated Responsibilities • Consideration • Copenhagen Accord • Corporate Liability • Cost–benefit analysis • Criticism • cronyism • developed country • development aid • discounting • Discounts and allowances • distributive justice • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economics • economist • economy • Emerging Technologies • Emissions Trading • entitlement • Environmental economics • Externality • Fossil fuel • Future Generation • Global Justice • global warming • Global warming potential • Greenhouse Gas • income • insurance • International Relations • Investment • IPCC Fourth Assessment Report • John Rawls • Lawsuit • Malaysia • Marginal cost • natural resource • Obligation • Payment • Per capita • percentage • Perverse incentive • Policy • pollution • Poverty • Precedent • Present Value • Quantity • Rate of return • Redistribution of income and wealth • Regime • Remedial action • Requirement • Restorative Justice • Ricardian Equivalence • saving • Scientific opinion on climate change • skepticism • Sovereignty • Subsidy • Supply (economics) • tariff • Tax • tax revenue • Technology • third world • Trade-off • Treaty • Uncertainty • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change • Veil of Ignorance • Wealth • welfare • Welfare Economics • welfarism • wrongdoing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3440-6 / 1400834406
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3440-2 / 9781400834402