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| Burden sharing: Burden sharing in economics refers to the allocation and distribution of costs or responsibilities among individuals, businesses, or nations to address challenges like taxes, public services, or international agreements. It aims to ensure equitable sharing of economic burdens based on capacity, fairness, and societal needs, often through policies or agreements. See also International relations, Justice, Costs._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Climate Policy on Burden Sharing - Dictionary of Arguments
Norgaard I 329 Burden sharing/Resource Sharing/Emissions/Climate Policy: (…) ‘burden sharing’ (like Kyoto‐style percentage reduction targets) focuses on dividing the total costs or total amount of emissions reductions, whereas ‘resource sharing’ (like equal per capita allocations) focuses on the right to make use of global carbon sinks as an economic resource, and how to share those rights. (…) resource‐sharing formulae are not necessarily more favorable to poor countries than burden‐sharing formulae; for example, a resource‐sharing formula which transitions from grandfathering to equal per capita allocations over time can be significantly less generous to many developing countries than (for example) a burden‐sharing formula like ‘Greenhouse Development Rights’ (Baer et al. 2008(1), 2010(2)) (…). VsResource Sharing: [Resource‐sharing formulae] offer no good solution to the problem of funding adaptation or liability for climate damages. Under equal per capita allocations, revenue from surplus permit sales would (for at least some countries) provide a source of funds for adaptation activities, but there is no reason to think that this would be sufficient in total or appropriately distributed. (...) using these funds for adaptation would reduce the ability to use them to supply low‐carbon energy sources needed in the future when permit allocations become scarce. (…) resource‐sharing approaches do not usually address the wide variation in income levels across parties with similar levels of emissions. Since some high emitters are poor and some low emitters are rich, equal per capita allocations can be criticized as ‘treating the unequal equally’, and thus as unfair. >Climate justice, >Environmental ethics. 1. Baer, P. et al. 2008. The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework. 2nd edn., Heinrich Böll Stiftung, EcoEquity, Stockholm Environment Institute and Christian Aid. Available at (http://gdrights.org/wp‐content/uploads/2009/01/thegdrsframework.pdf) (Link not available as of 12/04/19) 2. Baer, P. 2010. Greenhouse development rights: A framework for climate protection that is ‘more fair’ than equal per capita emissions rights. Pp. 215–30 in S. M. Gardiner, S. Caney, D. Jamieson, and H. Shue (eds.), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Baer, Paul: “International Justice”, In: John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg (eds.) (2011): The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Climate Policy Norgaard I Richard Norgaard John S. Dryzek The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society Oxford 2011 |
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