Distributive Justice, Competitiveness, and Transnational Climate Protection: 'One Human - One Emission Rightâ€

Discussions about national and European climate policies are increasingly facing a major obstacle: how can climate policy be advanced without detrimental effects for (national or global) social distributive justice and how can this 'socially compatible climate policy†be reconciled with competitiveness concerns in a liberalized global market, particularly in the case of European climate policy if it starts to serve as a model for global climate policy? And how can this lead to a stringent, effective, and fair global climate protection regime for the period beyond 2012 ('Kyoto IIâ€)?

This article proposes a basic architecture for the future transnational climate policy beyond the Kyoto Protocol ('Copenhagen Protocolâ€), but also assesses the possibilities for an extended pioneering role of the European Union - secured by complementary border adjustments - in the context of the ongoing EU and global climate policy debates. In addition, the two most-discussed obstacles to an effective climate policy are examined in detail: (national or global) social distributive justice and competitiveness. Moreover, the paper gives a normative justification for the global formula 'one human - one emission rightâ€, and outlines possible enforcing instruments for its global and European implementation. Particularly for evolving integration under a democratized WTO, this approach tries to offer the crucial step towards global justice.



Copyright: © Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Quelle: Issue 1/2009 (April 2009)
Seiten: 12
Preis: € 41,65
Autor: Prof. Dr. Felix Ekardt
Antonia von Hövel
 
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