Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy

by Ravi Kanbur (Editor), Henry Shue (Editor)

Overview

Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. In particular it requires that attempts to address justice between generations through various interventions designed to curb greenhouse emissions today do not end up creating injustice in our time by hurting the currently poor and vulnerable. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) summit in September 2015, and the Conference of Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, brought climate change and its development impact centre stage in global discussions.

In the run up to Paris, Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Climate Change, instituted the Climate Justice Dialogue "to mobilize political will and creative thinking to shape an ambitious and just international climate agreement in 2015". The editors of this volume, an economist and a philosopher, served on the High Level Advisory Committee of the Climate Justice Dialogue. They noted the overlap and mutual enforcement between the economic and philosophical discourses on climate justice. But they also noted the great need for these strands to come together to support the public and policy discourse. Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy is the result.

Bringing together contributions from economists and philosophers, Climate Justice illustrates the different approaches, how they overlap and interact, and what they have already learned from each other and might still have to learn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198813248
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/27/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as Chief Economist for Africa. He has published in the leading economics journals, including Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory and Economic Journal.

He is President of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, Chair of the Board of United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research, Co-Chair of the Scientific Council of the International Panel on Social Progress, and Past-President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.

Henry Shue is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations and a Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Merton College, both University of Oxford. He was the co-founder of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, the inaugural Hutchinson Professor of Ethics & Public Life at Cornell University (1987-2002), and Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford (2002-2007). Best known for Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton University Press 1980), he published his first two decades of writings on climate change as Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection (OUP 2014). His articles on the morality of violence appeared as Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War (OUP 2016). He is currently writing a series of articles on the urgency of action on climate change in light of duties of justice to future generations.

Table of Contents

1. Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy, Ravi Kanbur and Henry Shue2. Poor People on the Front Line: The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030, Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte3 Governing the Commons to Promote Global Justice: Climate Change Mitigation and Rent Taxation, Michael Jakob, Ottmar Edenhofer, Ulrike Kornek, Dominic Lenzi, and Jan Minx.4. Equity Implications of the COP21 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Adam Rose, Dan Wei, and Antonio Bento5. Climate Change and Inequity: How to Think about Inequities in Different Dimensions, Nicole Hassoun and Anders Herlitz6. Climate Change and Economic Self-Interest, Julie Nelson7. Noncompliers' Duties, Anja Karnein8. Divest-Invest: A Moral Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment, Alex Lenferna9. Justice and Posterity, Simon Caney10. Discounting and the Paradox of the Indefinitely Postponed Splurge, Matthew Rendall11. The Controllability Precautionary Principle: Justification of a Climate Policy Goal under Uncertainty, Eugen Pissarskoi12. The Social Cost of Carbon from Theory to Trump, Paul Kelleher13. Long-term Climate Justice, John NoltAppendix: Declaration on Climate Justice