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The Added Value of the Environment

Ekardt, Felix
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climate ethics
social policy 
emissions
justice
global ethics
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Environmental ethics
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The paper offers a basic structure for a future transnational climate policy beyond the Kyoto Protocol (“Copenhagen Protocol”), but also assesses the possibilities for a strongly extended pioneering role of the European Union – secured by complementary border adjustments – in the context of the ongoing national and global climate policy debate, but in contrast to the usually discussed approaches. In addition, the two most-discussed obstacles to an effective climate policy are examined in detail: (national or global) social distributive justice and competitiveness. Moreover, the paper gives a normative justification for the global formula “one human – one emission right”, and outlines possible enforcing instruments for its global and national implementation. Keywords: social climate policy, eco-tax, emission right, emission trading, Kyoto, global justice, climate justice.
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2009
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