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Burden Sharing and Fairness Principles in International Climate Policy

Burden Sharing and Fairness Principles in International Climate Policy One of the major challenges facing participants in the global climate change negotiations is to find a scheme of burden sharing that can be accepted as "fair" by all or at least most governments. In this article we first explore which basic principles of fairness seem to be sufficiently widely recognized to serve as a normative basis for such a scheme. We then examine a set of proposals for differentiating obligations that have been submitted by governments in the negotiations leading up to the Kyoto Protocol to see which principles have been honored. In the concluding section we discuss the implications of our analysis for the design of more specific burden sharing rules. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png "International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics" Springer Journals

Burden Sharing and Fairness Principles in International Climate Policy

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Environment; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Management; Environmental Economics; Nature Conservation; Political Science
ISSN
1567-9764
eISSN
1573-1553
DOI
10.1023/A:1015041613785
Publisher site
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Abstract

One of the major challenges facing participants in the global climate change negotiations is to find a scheme of burden sharing that can be accepted as "fair" by all or at least most governments. In this article we first explore which basic principles of fairness seem to be sufficiently widely recognized to serve as a normative basis for such a scheme. We then examine a set of proposals for differentiating obligations that have been submitted by governments in the negotiations leading up to the Kyoto Protocol to see which principles have been honored. In the concluding section we discuss the implications of our analysis for the design of more specific burden sharing rules.

Journal

"International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics"Springer Journals

Published: Jan 6, 2005

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