A Lockean Defense of Grandfathering Emission Rights

In Denis G. Arnold (ed.), The Ethics of Global Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. pp. 124-144 (2011)
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Abstract

I investigate whether any plausible moral arguments can be made for ‘grandfathering’ emission rights (that is, for setting emission targets for developed countries in line with their present or past emission levels) on the basis of a Lockean theory of property rights.

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Luc Bovens
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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