A Kantian approach to a sustainable development indicator for climate

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	A Kantian approach to a sustainable development indicator for climate
	Greaker, Mads; Stoknes, Per Espen; Alfsen, Knut H.; Ericson, Torgeir
	2012
出版年	2012
语种	英语
国家	挪威
出版者	CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo
领域	气候变化
英文摘要	How can the informed citizen know if the government is implementing a good-enough climate change policy? Most developed democracies have their own set of indicators for sustainable development, including indicators for climate change. These include yearly national emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs), global concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere and time series for global temperatures. However, without some kind of benchmark neither national emissions of GHGs nor global concentration of GHGs or temperatures, make it possible for the general public to evaluate the current climate policy of a nation state. In this paper we propose a benchmark for national climate policy based on a remaining CO2 budget allocated by egalitarian principles. Moreover, based on Kantian ethics we argue that this benchmark should be used as a sustainable development indicator for climate change. One way of interpreting Kantian ethics is to demand that each nation state should act as if a just global treaty on climate change were in place. We discuss possible important elements in a global treaty, and show how the different elements can be integrated in a forward-looking indicator of national climate policy.
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来源平台	Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO)
文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/1695
专题	气候变化
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Greaker, Mads,Stoknes, Per Espen,Alfsen, Knut H.,et al. A Kantian approach to a sustainable development indicator for climate:CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo,2012.