Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Climate Ethics, Affirmative Action, and Unjust Enrichment
Chapter 2. Historical Responsibility and Climate Change
Chapter 3. Historical Emissions: Does Ignorance Matter?
Chapter 4. How Legal Systems Deal with Issues of Responsibility for Past Harmful Behavior
Chapter 5. Asking Beneficiaries to Pay for Past Pollution
Chapter 6. Benefiting from Unjust Acts and Benefiting from Injustice: Historical Emissions and the Beneficiary Pays Principle
Chapter 7. A Luck-Based Moral Defense of Grandfathering
Chapter 8. In Defense of Emissions Egalitarianism?
Chapter 9. In the Name of Political Possibility: A New Proposal for Thinking About the Role and Relevance of Historical Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Chapter 10. Right to Development and Historical Emissions: A Perspective from the Particularly Vulnerable Countries

Includes index.

"This volume investigates who can be considered responsible for historical emissions and their consequences, and how and why this should matter for the design of a just global climate policy. The authors discuss the underlying philosophical issues of responsibility for historical emissions, the unjust enrichment of the earlier developed nations, as well as questions of transitional justice. By bringing together a plurality of perspectives, both in terms of the theoretical understanding of the issues and the political perspectives on the problem, the book also presents the remaining disagreements and controversies in the debate. Providing a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, this book provides an unbiased and authoritative guide for advanced students, researchers and policymakers in climate change justice and governance, and more widely, for anyone interested in the broader issues of global justice"