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Page, Edward (2011) Cosmopolitanism, climate change, and greenhouse emissions trading. International Theory, Vol.3 (No.1). pp. 37-69. doi:10.1017/S1752971910000333 ISSN 1752-9719.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1752971910000333
Abstract
This article examines the question of whether international markets in allowances conferring the right to emit greenhouse gases are consistent with a cosmopolitan approach to global and intergenerational justice. After placing emissions trading within the context of both climate change policy and cosmopolitan political theory, three normative objections are examined to the use of emissions trading to mitigate the threat of dangerous climate change. Each objection arises from a different application of cosmopolitan thinking: (i) the potentially corrosive impact of greater use of emissions allowances markets on the environmental values of successive generations of atmospheric users; (ii) the awkward relationship between emissions markets and the norms of procedural justice endorsed by all prominent cosmopolitans; and (iii) the injustice expressed by policy instruments that commodify the atmosphere. It is argued that, while each objection should prompt some care in the construction and implementation of emissions trading schemes to guarantee their legitimacy among existing and future users of the atmosphere, they do not generate a decisive normative challenge to the use of markets, properly defined and regulated, to slow global warming.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Emissions trading, Environmental justice, Climatic changes -- Political aspects, Cosmopolitanism | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Theory | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1752-9719 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.3 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 37-69 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S1752971910000333 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 |
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