On the concept of climate debt: Its moral and political value

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 667-685

  Pickering, Jonathan ^a   Barry, Christian ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Climate debt; Global justice; International climate negotiations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870011777     PISSN: 13698230     EISSN: 17438772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2012.727311     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Allen, M.R., et al., 2009. Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne. Nature, 458, 1163-1166.
2. Barry, C., 2005. Applying the contribution principle. Metaphilosophy, 36 (1-2), 210-227.
3. Barry, C. And Øverland, G., 2011. On the implications of failing to assist. Unpublished manuscript.
4. Barry, C. And Tomitova, L., 2007. Fairness in sovereign debt. Ethics & international affairs, 21 (S1), 41-79.
5. Birks, P., 2003. Unjust enrichment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Birnie, P., Boyle, A., and Redgwell, C., 2009. International law and the environment. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
7. Bolivia, 2009.commitments for Annex I parties under paragraph 1(b)(i) of the Bali Action Plan: evaluating developed countries' historical climate debt to developing countries, 25 April. Bonn: UNFCCC, 44-51.
8. Botzen, W.J.W., Gowdy, J.M., and Van Den Bergh, J.C.J.M., 2008. Cumulative CO2 emissions: shifting international responsibilities for climate debt. Climate policy, 8 (6), 569-576.
9. Bovens, L., 2011. A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights. In: D.G. Arnold, ed. The ethics of global climate change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 124-144.
10. Calabresi, G., 1970. The cost of accidents: a legal and economic analysis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
11. Caney, S., 2006. Cosmopolitan justice, rights and global climate change. Canadian journal of law and jurisprudence, 19 (2), 255-278.
12. Caney, S., 2009. Justice and the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of global ethics, 5 (2), 125-146.
13. Caney, S., 2010. Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds. In: S. Humphreys, ed. Human rights and climate change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69-90.
14. Chakravarty, S. Et al., 2009. Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106, 11884-11888.
15. Climate Justice Info, 2010. World people's conference on climate change and the rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba, Bolivia (19-20 April 2010): Outcome on climate debt [online]. Http://climate-justice.info/2010/04/world-peoples- conference-outcome-on-climate-debt/[Accessed 8 October 2012].
16. Climate Justice Now, 2009. Bolivia responds to U.S. On climate debt: 'If you break it, you buy it' [online]. Http://www.climate-justice-now.org/bolivia- responds-tous-on-climate-debt-if-you-break-it-you-buy-it/[Accessed 8 October 2012].
17. Cranor, C., 1990. Some moral issues in risk assessment. Ethics, 101 (1), 123-143.
18. Depledge, J., 2009. The road less travelled: difficulties in moving between annexes in the climate change regime. Climate policy, 9, 273-287.
19. Dryzek, J.S., 2010. Rhetoric in democracy: a systemic appreciation. Political theory, 38 (3), 319-339.
20. Faure, M.G. And Nollkaemper, A., 2007. International liability as an instrument to prevent and compensate for climate change. Stanford journal of international law, 43, 123-179.
21. Finnemore, M. And Sikkink, K., 1998. International norm dynamics and political change. International organization, 52 (4), 887-917.
22. Fischer, F., 2003. Reframing public policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
23. Gardiner, S.M., 2001. The real tragedy of the commons. Philosophy & public affairs, 30 (4), 387-416.
24. Goodin, R.E. And Barry, C., 2011. Benefitting from other people's wrongdoing. Unpublished working paper.
25. Hardin, G., 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science, 162 (3859), 1243-1248.
26. Hayward, T., 2006. Global justice and the distribution of natural resources. Political studies, 54 (2), 349-369.
27. Hayward, T., 2007. Human rights versus emissions rights: climate justice and the equitable distribution of ecological space. Ethics & international affairs, 21 (4), 431-450.
28. Höhne, N. Et al., 2011. Contributions of individual countries' emissions to climate change and their uncertainty. Climatic change, 106 (3), 359-391.
29. Jagers, S.C. And Duus-Otterström, G., 2008. Dual climate change responsibility: on moral divergences between mitigation and adaptation. Environmental politics, 17 (4), 576-591.
30. Khalfan, A., King, J., and Thomas, B., 2003. Advancing the odious debt doctrine. Centre for International Sustainable Development Law working paper. Montreal: McGill University.
31. Kiss, A. And Shelton, D.L., 2007. Strict liability in international environmental law. In: T.M. Ndiaye and R. Wolfrum, eds. Law of the sea, environmental law and settlement of disputes: liber amicorum Judge Thomas A. Mensah. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1131-1151.
32. Klein, N., 2009. Climate rage. Rolling Stone. 11 November.
33. Locke, J., 1988 [1690]. Two treatises of government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Martinez-Alier, J., 1993. Distributional obstacles to international environmental policy: the failures at Rio and prospects after Rio. Environmental values, 2, 97-124.
35. Martinez-Alier, J., 2002. The environmentalism of the poor: a study of ecological conflicts and valuation. Cheltenham; Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
36. Meyer, L.H. And Roser, D., 2010. Climate justice and historical emissions. Critical review of international social and political philosophy, 13 (1), 229-253.
37. Miller, D., 2007. National responsibility and global justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
38. Neumayer, E., 2000. In defence of historical accountability for greenhouse gas emissions. Ecological economics, 33 (2), 185-192.
39. Nisbet, M.C., 2009.communicating climate change: why frames matter for public engagement. Environment: science and policy for sustainable development, 51 (2), 12-23.
40. Nordhaus, W.D., 1994. Managing the global commons: the economics of climate change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
41. Ostrom, E., 1990. Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
42. Page, E.A., 2007. Intergenerational justice of what: welfare, resources or capabilities? Environmental politics, 16 (3), 453-469.
43. Pan, J. And Chen, Y., 2010. Carbon budget proposal: a framework for an equitable and sustainable international climate regime. Social sciences in China, 31 (1), 5-34.
44. Pickering, J., Vanderheiden, S., and Miller, S., Forthcoming. "If equity's in, we're out": scope for fairness in the next global climate agreement. Ethics and International Affairs.
45. Posner, E.A. And Weisbach, D., 2010. Climate change justice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
46. Roberts, J.T. And Parks, B.C., 2007. A climate of injustice. Global inequality, north-south politics, and climate policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
47. Sachs, N., 2008. Beyond the liability wall: strengthening tort remedies in international environmental law. UCLA law review, 55 (4), 837-904.
48. Samuelsohn, D., 2009. No 'pass' for developing countries in next climate treaty, says U.S. Envoy. New York Times, 9 December.
49. Shafter, J., 2007. The due diligence model: a new approach to the problem of odious debts. Ethics & international affairs, 20 (1), 49-67.
50. Shue, H., 1999. Global environment and international inequality. International affairs, 75 (3), 531-545.
51. Simms, A., 2009. Ecological debt: global warming and the wealth of nations. 2nd ed. London: Pluto Press.
52. Singer, P., 2002. One world: the ethics of globalisation. Melbourne: Text.
53. Smith, K.R., 1991. Allocating responsibility for global warming: the natural debt index. Ambio, 20 (2), 95-96.
54. Smith, L.D., 1997. The law of tracing. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
55. Srinivasan, U.T., et al., 2008. The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 105 (5), 1768-1773.
56. Stevenson, H., 2011. Representing 'the peoples'? Post-neoliberal states in the international climate negotiations [online]. Working Paper 2011/1. Canberra: Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, The Australian National University. Available from: http://deliberativedemocracy. anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/working-papers/STEVENSON%20Hayley% 202011-1.pdf [Accessed 8 October 2012].
57. TERI (2009). Right to sustainable development: an ethical approach to climate change. New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
58. Thompson, J., 2009. Intergenerational justice. Rights and responsibilities in an intergenerational polity. New York: Routledge.
59. Vanderheiden, S., 2008. Atmospheric justice. A political theory of climate change. New York: Oxford University Press.
60. Vanderheiden, S., 2011. Globalizing responsibility for climate change. Ethics & international affairs, 25 (1), 65-84.
61. Voigt, C., 2008. State responsibility for climate change damages. Nordic journal of international law, 77 (1-2), 1-22.
62. Waldron, J., 1992. Superseding historic injustice. Ethics, 103 (1), 4-28.
63. Walsh, B., 2009. Do rich nations owe poor ones a climate debt? Time, 10 December. WBGU, 2009. Solving the climate dilemma: the budget approach [online]. Berlin: German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Available from: http://www.wbgu.de/en/special-reports/sr-2009-budget-approach/[Accessed 8 October 2012].
64. World Bank, 2010. Development and climate change [online]. World Development Report 2010. Washington, DC: World Bank. Available from: http://siteresources. Worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/ WDR10-Full-Text.pdf [Accessed 8 October 2012].