| DOI: | 10.1007/s10584-017-1981-5
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-85019686562
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| 论文题名: | An intergenerationally fair path towards 2 °C |
| 作者: | Moellendorf D.; Schaffer A.
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| 刊名: | Climatic Change
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| ISSN: | 0165-0009
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| EISSN: | 1573-1480
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| 出版年: | 2017
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| 卷: | 143, 期:2018-01-02 | | 起始页码: | 213
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| 结束页码: | 226
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| 语种: | 英语
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| Scopus关键词: | Carbon
; Costs
; Public policy
; Climate policy
; Model comparison
; Policy implications
; S models
; Short term
; Climate change
; climate change
; environmental economics
; environmental policy
; intergenerational transfer
; temperature profile
; utility sector
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| 英文摘要: | In this paper, we argue that important questions of the intergenerational distribution of the costs of climate change remain even if a temperature target 2 °C is assumed because the target can be pursued in ways that assign costs differently across generations. Moreover, the discounted utilitarian approach that is standard in the economics literature is suspect in light of an a priori argument about its fairness. We also compare the results of modeling Nordhaus’s version of discounted utilitarianism, constrained by a 2-degree warming parameter, with a similarly constrained version of a principle that requires minimizing the accumalted differences in the burdens of climate change costs across generations. The model comparison demonstrates that the a priori worry about discounted utilitarianism is largely born out. Nordhaus’s version of discounted utilitarianism assigns poorer generations a heavier burden because it is optimific to do so. These arguments call into question the tremendous credibility that discounted utilitarianism enjoys in climate policy. The most important policy implication of the paper is that in order to pursue a fair path towards limiting warming to 2 °C, policy should be directed to increasing the price of carbon over the short term significantly more than what is called for by Nordhaus’s model. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/83985
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候减缓与适应
气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: | Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Munich, Germany
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Moellendorf D.,Schaffer A.. An intergenerationally fair path towards 2 °C[J]. Climatic Change,2017-01-01,143(2018-01-02)
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