Full Description
This book investigates the ethical values that inform the global carbon integrity system, and reflects on alternative norms that could or should do so. The global carbon integrity system comprises the emerging international architecture being built to respond to the climate change. This architecture can be understood as an 'integrity system'- an inter-related set of institutions, governance arrangements, regulations and practices that work to ensure the system performs its role faithfully and effectively. This volume investigates the ways ethical values impact on where and how the integrity system works, where it fails, and how it can be improved. With a wide array of perspectives across many disciplines, including ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, governance experts and political theorists, the chapters seek to explore the positive values driving the global climate change processes, to offer an understanding of the motivations justifying the creation of the regime and the way that social norms impact upon the operation of the integrity system. The collection focuses on the nexus between ideal ethics and real-world implementation through institutions and laws. The book will be of interest to policy makers, climate change experts, carbon taxation regulators, academics, legal practitioners and researchers.
Contents
Introductory Framework: Ethical values and the global carbon integrity system, Rowena Maguire, David M. Douglas, Vesselin Popovski and Hugh Breakey; A comprehensive framework for evaluating the integrity of the climate regime complex, Hugh Breakey and Tim Cadman. Part I Injecting Ethics into Governance Arrangements: Mapping the integrity of differential obligations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rowena Maguire; Stakeholder perspectives on the integrity of the climate regime, Tim Cadman; How to assure that nations consider ethics and justice in climate change policy formulation, Donald A. Brown; The context-integrity of the global carbon regime: the relevance and impact of the World Trade Organization, Felicity Deane. Part II Ethics in a Dynamic and Decentralized World: Top-down proposals for sharing the global climate policy effort fairly: lost in translation in a bottom-up world?, Jonathan Pickering; Reflecting climate change impacts in governance and integrity system design, Liese Coulter; Ethics and governance in climate change debate: the need for an institutional shift from nation-states to individuals, Yugank Goyal; Polycentric systems and the integrity approach, Anne Schwenkenbecher. Part III Social Norms in the Global Context: Eco v. ego: non-anthropocentric ethic in anthropocene epoch, Vesselin Popovski; Still in search of the good life, Charles Sampford; Two epistemic errors in the climate change debate, David Coady. Part IV Marshalling Human Rights to the Cause: The contribution of human rights to the effectiveness and integrity of the global carbon regime, Bridget Lewis; Mary Robinson's Declaration of Climate Justice: climate change, human rights and fossil fuel divestment, Matthew Rimmer; The ethical responsibility of the loss and damage mechanism: a consideration of non-economic loss and human rights, Andrea C. Simonelli; Heating up climate change norms - lessons from human rights, Hugh Breakey. Bibliography; Index.
