Climate Change and Individual Duties to Reduce GHG Emissions

Baatz, Christian

doi:10.1080/21550085.2014.885406

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“…Examples can be found e.g. in Baatz (2014), Broome (2012), Cripps (2013), Schinkel (2011), andSinnott-Armstrong (2005). For further debates see also the discussions on responsibility for climate change discussed more widely above in footnote 15.…”

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Different Angles on Climate Justice: Insights from Non-Domination and Mutual Recognition

Zellentin

2018

SSRN Journal

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Practitioners occasionally demure that the current academic literature on climate justice is overly abstract and unhelpful in their attempt to promote more effective and equitable climate policies. This paper analyses the claim that one reason for this might be that the debate is currently shaped by a particular narrow understanding of justice as impartiality and neglects other important approaches to justice. I first introduce my interpretation of Erik O. Eriksen's three conceptions of global political justice focusing on impartiality, non-domination, and mutual recognition. Then, I present the key concerns and positions that shape the debates on climate justice in the field of political theory and show why (and in how far) I think current climate justice is predominantly shaped by 'justice as impartiality'. I argue that this explains the emphasis on substantive justice over procedural questions. Furthermore, I show that looking at key questions in climate justice from the perspectives of theories emphasising non-domination and mutual recognition helps to identify some blind-spots in the current debate. Among the issues that are currently somewhat neglected are questions relating to the nature of the relationships of the relevant parties negotiating climate policy. This concerns on the one hand power inequalities and dependencies that shape the interactions between different parties. On the other hand, this relates to the question of how agents perceive these relationships with regard to dimensions of recognition, respect, and concern. It seems likely that less powerful agents have good reasons to feel that the global political regime as it currently works does not treat their interests and demands with the same urgency and importance as is shown for those of some more powerful players. Furthermore, their concerns regarding the normatively significant features of the situation at large are not always respected as equally valid contributions to the debate. I conclude by arguing that climate justice nonetheless cannot do without a rights-based framework typical for justice as impartiality that protects fundamental interests and the pre-conditions for free and equal participation.

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Different Angles on Climate Justice: Insights from Non-Domination and Mutual Recognition

Zellentin

2018

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“…Indeed, at the collective level the problem of causal inefficacy does not arise and it is a widely held view that we have a collective duty to reduce our GHG emissions. Some authors derive from it a moral obligation to do one's part of the emission reductions One way to make sense of this idea is to attribute a ‘fair share’ of the global carbon budget to each individual, which she is legitimately entitled to emit (emission rights).…”

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“…However, various philosophers have argued that departures from equality are justified by various criteria such as the energy needed to fulfill one's basic needs, the possibility to use alternative energies or the endowment of agents with other kind of goods and resources (see Ref ). In other words, the size of one's fair share is very sensitive to personal circumstances, which means that the level of permissible emissions must be assessed on a case‐by‐case basis (see Refs ) . However, this difficulty does not exonerate affluent people from the duty to reduce their carbon footprint, insofar as they are most plausible overshooting their share by a wide margin.…”

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“…A major problem with demandingness objections is that they are usually not compatible with an adequate response to climate change. Indeed, even if everyone got rid of her luxury emissions this would not necessarily be enough to stop the dangerous accumulation of GHGs in the atmosphere . There is hence a conflict between the intuition that we must bring climate change under control and the intuition that morality cannot ask too much from individuals .…”

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“…vvThere is a growing philosophical literature about the existence of a duty to take up the slack in situations of partial compliance. For applications to the case of climate change, see Refs .…”

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