Fairness on the Day after Tomorrow: Justice, Reciprocity and Global Climate Change

Page, Edward C.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00649.x

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“…Our choice of international allocation principles draws on the scholarly literature on distributional aspects in global climate policy (24,25) and prominent social conceptions of fairness. In particular, we include the "polluter-pays" principle ("proportional to current emissions" and "proportional to the history of emissions"), as well as the "ability-to-pay" principle ("only rich countries pay" and "rich countries pay more than poor countries").…”

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Mass support for global climate agreements depends on institutional design

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2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Effective climate mitigation requires international cooperation, and these global efforts need broad public support to be sustainable over the long run. We provide estimates of public support for different types of climate agreements in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Using data from a largescale experimental survey, we explore how three key dimensions of global climate cooperation-costs and distribution, participation, and enforcement-affect individuals' willingness to support these international efforts. We find that design features have significant effects on public support. Specifically, our results indicate that support is higher for global climate agreements that involve lower costs, distribute costs according to prominent fairness principles, encompass more countries, and include a small sanction if a country fails to meet its emissions reduction targets. In contrast to well-documented baseline differences in public support for climate mitigation efforts, opinion responds similarly to changes in climate policy design in all four countries. We also find that the effects of institutional design features can bring about decisive changes in the level of public support for a global climate agreement. Moreover, the results appear consistent with the view that the sensitivity of public support to design features reflects underlying norms of reciprocity and individuals' beliefs about the potential effectiveness of specific agreements.international institutions | environmental cooperation | global warming | international relations | public opinion

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Mass support for global climate agreements depends on institutional design

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2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Nonetheless, an important distinction has been made between reciprocity as mutual advantage and reciprocity as fair play (Page 2007;Becker 1990). According to the first view, the requirement that individuals contribute to the well-being of others must be consistent with the advancement with their own well-being.…”

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On Firms and the Next Generations: Difficulties and Possibilities for Business Ethics Inquiry

Arenas

Rodrigo

2014

J Bus Ethics

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Despite the centrality of the topic for the debate on sustainability, future generations have largely been ignored by business ethics. This neglect is in part due to the enormous philosophical challenges posed by the concepts of future generations and intergenerational duties. This article reviews some of these difficulties and defends that much clarity would be gained from making a distinction between future generations and the next generations. It also argues that the concept of next generations offers a better starting point for business ethics to incorporate the topic in its research agenda. We then suggest four potential pathways to explore this territory. The four approaches build on the notion of organizations as communities with memory and vision, on the narrative shape of organizational life, on the affinity of stakeholders with the next generation, and on systems of indirect reciprocity. These first two approaches are connected to communitarian approaches to business ethics, and the last two engage in a dialog with contractarian views and stakeholder theory. The article ends with some implications for theory and practice.

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“…Strongly fluctuating agro-meteorology will cause elevated risks for crop yields, diseases and plagues (Rivington et al, 2013). A specific item is that of climate justice (Tonn, 2003;Page, 2007): the highest tangibility of climate change impacts will hit developing countries (e.g. regions of Africa), having contributed little to historic greenhouse gas emissions and having low capacity to cope or adapt (Bryan et al, 2013;Dasgupta et al, 2007;Fischer et al, 2005).…”

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