Climate justice in a carbon budget

Climate Justice

No Justice in Climate Policy ?

arguments about morality, justice, and economic inequality that he offers in support of his proposal for a WCB together with a price on carbon. I then address objections to Broome's position, rebut some of them, and contrast his position to that of P&W. (C) Broome Like P&W, Broome takes as his starting point the fact that the climate treaty negotiation participants who have the most power are u...

Justice and Climate Change

Climate change raises complex issues of science, economics, and politics; it also raises difficult issues of justice. Poor nations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, in part because they are poor. Wealthy nations have less at risk, in part because they are wealthy. It is both tempting and plausible to suggest that for either emissions reductions or adaptation, wealthy nations owe...

Global carbon budget 2014

Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere is important to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe data sets and a methodology to quantify all major components of the global carbon budget, inc...

The Regional Carbon Budget

A number of approaches have been used to infer whether Amazonia is a net source or sink for carbon. Top-down approaches based on inverse calculations with CO2 concentrations and atmospheric transport models are problematic because of a paucity of air samples and poor constraints on regional air transport. Direct measurements of changes in aboveground biomass suggest a net carbon sink in oldgrow...