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Fairness, Responsibility, and Climate Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2003

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References

1 For the most authoritative treatment of climate change science, effects, and policy options, see Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2001, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001Google Scholar).

2 See Jamieson, Dale, Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 282–95Google Scholar.

3 Athanasiou, Tom and Baer, Paul, Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002), p. 6Google Scholar; emphasis in original.

4 Harris, Paul G., International Equity and Global Environmental Politics: Power and Principle in U.S. Foreign Policy (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2001Google Scholar).

5 For recent summaries of some ethical, legal, and practical justice considerations in this context, see Drumbl, Mark A., “Poverty, Wealth, and Obligation in International Environmental Law,” Tulane Law Review 76 (March 2002), pp. 843960Google Scholar; Harris, International Equity and Global Environmental Politics; Jamieson, Morality's Progress., pp. 296–307; Paterson, Matthew, “Principles of Justice in the Context of Global Climate Change,” in Luterbacher, Urs and Sprinz, Detlef F., eds., International Relations and Global Climate Change (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 119–26Google Scholar; and Ellen Wiegandt, “Climate Change, Equity, and International Negotiations,” in Luterbacher and Sprinz, eds., International Relations and Global Climate Change, pp. 127–50.

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12 Ibid., pp. 47–51. See also Agarwal, Anil and Narain, Sunita, Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism (New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment, 1991), pp. 171–99Google Scholar; and Meyer, Aubrey, Contraction and Convergence: The Global Solution to Climate Change (Totnes, U.K.: Green Books, 2000Google Scholar).

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15 Ibid., pp. 11,8Google Scholar.

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20 Atal Bihari Vajpayee, “Speech of Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the High Level Segment of the Eighth Session of Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change New Delhi,” October 30, 2002; available at http://unfccc.int/cop8/latest/ind_pm3010.pdf.

21 I first shared some of these comments in Paul G. Harris, “A Political Setback in the War on Global Warming,”South China Morning Post., November 21,2002, p. 18.

22 Jamieson, , Morality's Progress, pp. 305,306Google Scholar.