Week 5 Common but differentiated responsibility.

PHIL 51—Scientific Reasoning

Week 5

Common but differentiated responsibility.
What it is, in brief
What a way of distributing the burden of decarbonization that did not follow the principle of common but differentiated responsibility would look like
Be able to explain what each of the following mitigation principles is, any objections to it we’ve discussed, and any responses to those objections we’ve discussed:
Polluter pays.
Appropriator pays.
Beneficiary pays.
Ability to pay.
Equal per capital.
Anti-poverty.
On climate adaptation
Why it’s largely a question of values
The importance of considering background injustice when discussing climate adaptation
Why mitigation is often given more attention than adaptation in climate policy
Maladaptation. What it is, be able to illustrate with an example