Cover; Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; 1: Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Overlapping Perspectives; 1.3. The Volume Chapters; 1.4. Pathways Toward Integration; References; 2: Poor People on the Front Line: The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Step 1: Exploring the Uncertainty on Future Poverty and Inequality; 2.3. Step 2: Selecting Two Representative Scenarios: "Prosperity" vs. "Poverty."
2.4. Step 3: Introducing the Impacts of Climate Change2.4.1. Food Prices and Food Production; 2.4.2. Health; 2.4.2.1. STUNTING; 2.4.2.2. MALARIA; 2.4.2.3. DIARRHEA; 2.4.3. Temperature and Labor Productivity; 2.4.4. Natural Disasters; 2.5. Results: Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty; 2.6. Limits and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3: Governing the Commons to Promote Global Justice: Climate Change Mitigation and Rent Taxation; 3.1. The Challenge of Managing Global Commons; 3.2. The Climate Rent; 3.2.1. Implementation of Carbon Pricing on the International Level
3.2.2. Carbon Pricing Revenues3.2.3. Just Distribution and Revenue Recycling on the International Level; 3.2.4. Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Promote Human Development; 3.3. Resource and Land Rents; 3.3.1. Taxing Land and Natural Resource Rents; 3.3.2. Justice Arguments Concerning Natural Resource and Land Rents; 3.3.3. Using Land and Resource Rents to Promote Human Development; 3.4. Political Feasibility and Implementation; 3.4.1. Political Feasibility; 3.4.2. Implementation; 3.5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References
4: Equity Implications of the COP21 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Pre-Trading Equity Analysis; 4.2.1. Equity Principles; 4.2.2. Basic Data; 4.2.3. Index Analysis; 4.2.3.1. GINI COEFFICIENTS; 4.2.3.2. ATKINSON INDEXES; 4.2.4. Equity Principle Analysis; 4.3. Emissions Trading Model; 4.4. Emissions Trading Analysis; 4.4.1. Basic Data; 4.4.2. Base Case Analysis; 4.4.3. Macroeconomic Cost Analysis; 4.4.4. Analysis of Alternative Technology Paths; 4.4.5. GHG Emission Offsets; 4.5. Post-Trading Equity Analysis
4.6. Further Analysis4.7. Conclusion; Appendix A. Basic Data; References; 5: Climate Change and Inequity: How to Think about Inequities in Different Dimensions; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Different Types of Inequality and Trade-offs Between Them; 5.3. Equality and Other Things that Matter; 5.4. A Framework for Measuring Inequality; 5.5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 6: Climate Change and Economic Self-Interest; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The Power of Economic Self-Interest: Says Who?; 6.3. Destined for Failure; 6.4. Evidence on Human Motivations
Summary
Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. This book brings together economic and philosophical discourse on climate justice in order to support public policy dialogue on the topic
