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A Methodological Point and A Substantial Worry on Sayegh¡¯s ¡®Pricing Carbon for Climate Justice¡¯

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Lo Re S & Lo Re L (2019) A Methodological Point and A Substantial Worry on Sayegh¡¯s ¡®Pricing Carbon for Climate Justice¡¯. Ethics, Policy and Environment, 22 (2), pp. 135-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2019.1625536

Abstract
First paragraph: In his ¡®Pricing Carbon for Climate Justice¡¯, Alexandre Sayegh develops the connections between climate justice and climate economics. More specifically, the paper focuses on how ¡®market-based instruments for climate change mitigation (MBIs) [should] respond to requirements of justice¡¯. Sayegh seeks to provide a normative framework for the moral justification of MBIs, and to show that MBIs can be interpreted as ¡®instruments of justice¡¯ once their design is suitably constrained by theories of climate justice. With regard to both aims, Sayegh offers a number of interesting contributions. At the level of the normative foundation, besides arguing in favour of a turn from a ¡®right to emit¡¯ to a ¡®right to energy¡¯, the way he connects pricing carbon mechanisms to the duty not-toharm is quite sophisticated. In addition to this, when turning to the interaction between considerations of justice and the design of MBIs Sayegh offers a detailed analysis of alternatives to address trade-offs between efficiency in emissions reduction and fairness.

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Ethics, Policy and Environment: Volume 22, Issue 2

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2019
Publication date online10/06/2019
ISSN2155-0085
eISSN2155-0093