Climate Change and the Moral Significance of historical Injustice in Natural Resource Governance
Megan Blomfield
2015
Comment: This chapter seeks to contextualise conversations about historic wrongs of past emissions in a broader context of other injustices regarding natural resources.
Climate Matters Chapter 3
John Broome
2012
Comment: The text holds a controversial position in climate justice literature due to arguing that our response to climate change should not be determined by considerations of justice. Consequently, it endorses the idea of efficiency without sacrifice which is when future generations pay for the cost of tackling climate change, due to this being.
Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Global Climate Change
Simon Caney
2005
Comment: Provides an exploration of different possible principle to determine who should pay of climate change, and illustrates problems with some common sense positions, such as the polluter pays principles.
Do Parents have a Special Duty to Mitigate Climate Change?
Elizabeth Cripps
2017
Comment: This paper considers the duties of parents in responding to climate change, and argues that parents owe it to their children and grandchildren to mitigate climate change.
Global Environment and International Inequality
Henry Shue
1999
Comment: Argues that three common-sense principles of fairness converge on the conclusion that industrialised states should pay the initial cost of tackling climate change.
One Atmosphere
Peter Singer
2002
Comment: Considers four principles of fairness for distributing global emissions, and proposes an emission trading scheme as the solution.