Climate change justice
By: Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach
Contributors: Weisbach, David A.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780691137759
Description: Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many take it for granted that a global climate treaty should directly address both issues together. In clear language, this book proposes four basic principles for designing the only kind of climate treaty that will work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethically relevant facts and predictions; title: Policy instruments; title: Symbols, not substance; title: Climate change and distributive justice: climate change blinders; title: Punishing the wrongdoers: a climate guilt clause?; title: Equality and the case against per capita permits; title: Future generations: the debate over discounting; title: Global welfare, global justice, and climate change.