GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Polluter Pays Principle, Climate Justice, Restorative Justice

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

Gardiner: the core ethical issue concerning global warming is that of how to allocate the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas emissions and abatement. Allocation of costs of prevention, costs of adaptation, resources to bargain, and of emissions themselves. Shue: starting point is inequity between north and south. Three kinds of burdens to think through in response: Justification of the unequal burdens intended to reduce or eliminate the existing inequality by removing an advantage. Justification of unequal burdens intended to prevent existing inequality from becoming worse. Justifying a guaranteed minimum set of conditions. The first burden he develops into a principle that is at the heart of the historical responsibility" approach to climate justice. When one has taken advantage of another by imposing costs without consent, disadvantaged can demand that offending party shoulder more burden. Polluter-pays principle, commonly articulated by bric nations and the global south more generally. Ties the responsibility to those that produced problem.