Beyond Durban: A New Agenda for Climate Ethics

Andrew Light

Chapter Chapter 5 in Justice, Sustainability, and Security, 2013, pp 109-129 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, I will argue that more work is needed on international climate finance in the literature on climate ethics. Given the outcome of the UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa in 2012, we are unlikely to see any drivers emerging from those negotiations to reduce carbon emissions through a new international treaty during this decade. There is, however, ample room to encourage individual countries to increase their own ambition if flows of public and private finance were made available. This push—which is driven by the 2009 international commitment in Copenhagen to create a new Green Climate Fund that would mobilize a “significant portion” of a promised $100 billion per year in assistance for mitigation and adaptation by 2020 1 —raises ample ethical issues that ethicists should play a role in helping to resolve.

Keywords: Kyoto Protocol; Climate Ethic; Climate Safety; Climate Finance; Copenhagen Accord (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137322944_5

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