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A gentle critique of the Greenhouse Development Rights framework
Author(s) -
Shockley Kenneth E.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.678
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1757-7799
pISSN - 1757-7780
DOI - 10.1002/wcc.215
Subject(s) - individualism , greenhouse gas , climate change , environmental ethics , economic justice , political science , sociology , law and economics , political economy , environmental resource management , law , economics , ecology , philosophy , biology
The Greenhouse Development Rights (GDR) framework provides a promising attempt at fairly distributing the burdens of climate change. This brief review critically examines the framework, with a particular focus on the individualism that the authors take to provide much of the moral justification for their account. The review concludes that the particular role played by individualism in GDR both blinds the framework to certain crucial features of development and leads to difficulties in attributing historical emissions more properly tied to states and collective entities than to individuals. WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:225–231. doi: 10.1002/wcc.215 This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice