A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for climate change

Mads Greaker, Per Espen Stoknes, Knut Alfsen and Torgeir Ericson

Ecological Economics, 2013, vol. 91, issue C, 10-18

Abstract: Agenda 21 required countries to develop and regularly update a national set of indicators for sustainable development. Several countries now have such sets also including separate indicators for climate change. Some of these indicators typically report global concentration of green house gasses in the atmosphere or time series for global temperatures. While such indicators may give the public information about the state of the global climate, they do not provide a benchmark which makes it possible for the public to evaluate the climate policy of their government.

Keywords: Sustainable development indicators; Climate policy; Climate agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 Q56 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.03.011

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