Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement
@article{Dooley2021EthicalCB, title={Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement}, author={Kate Dooley and Christian Holz and Sivan Kartha and Sonja Klinsky and J. Timmons Roberts and Henry Shue and Harald Winkler and Tom Athanasiou and Simon Caney and Elizabeth A. Cripps and Navroz K. Dubash and Galen Hall and Paul G. Harris and B{\aa}rd Lahn and Darrel Moellendorf and Benito M{\"u}ller and Ambuj D. Sagar and Peter Nicholas Singer}, journal={Nature Climate Change}, year={2021}, volume={11}, pages={300 - 305} }
The Parties to the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement agreed to act on the basis of equity to protect the climate system. Equitable effort sharing is an irreducibly normative matter, yet some influential studies have sought to create quantitative indicators of equitable effort that claim to be value-neutral (despite evident biases). Many of these studies fail to clarify the ethical principles underlying their indicators, some mislabel approaches that favour wealthy nations as ‘equity approaches’ and…
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