Climate Justice and Historical Emissions [electronic resource]
Edited by Lukas H. Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
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"