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Global Warming and Social Justice


Eric A. Posner


University of Chicago - Law School

Cass R. Sunstein


Harvard Law School
Spring 2008

Regulation, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 14-20, Spring 2008

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This article investigates considerations of distributive and corrective justice in the context of climate change policy. The authors accept that there is good reason for greenhouse gas emissions restrictions, but those reasons do not include concerns about distributive and corrective justice. It is unclear that those restrictions are the best way to help the most disadvantaged people in the world, and climate change does not fit the standard conception of tort.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 7

Keywords: global warming, climate change policy, greenhouse gas emissions, restrictions, corrective justice, tort, policy, altruism, redistributive effects

JEL Classification: H77, F36

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Date posted: August 15, 2009  

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Posner, Eric A. and Sunstein, Cass R., Global Warming and Social Justice (Spring 2008). Regulation, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 14-20, Spring 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1121781

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Eric A. Posner (Contact Author)
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Cass R. Sunstein
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