Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime

ISBN-13: 9789048134380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 184 str.

Marco Grasso

Opis

Covering the ethical dimensions of international-level adaptation funding, a subject of growing interest in the climate change debate, this book provides a theoretical analysis of the ethical foundations of the UNFCCC regime on adaptation funding, one that culminates in the definition of a framework of justice. The text features an interpretative analysis of the ethical contents of the UNFCCC funding architecture by applying the framework of justice proposed to different areas of empirical investigation. The book offers scholars working on climate change, international relations, and environmental politics an analysis characterized by both theoretical soundness and empirical richness. The comprehensiveness of the book s approach should make it possible to plan and implement international adaptation funding more effectively, and eventually to define more just funding policies and practices."

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.- 1. Introduction.- 1.1 Justice and climate change.- 1.2 Aims of the book.- 1.3 Outline of the book.- 2 Adaptation to climate change.- 2.1 The prominent role of mitigation.- 2.2 Integrating mitigation and adaptation.- 2.3 The importance of adaptation.- 2.4 The notion of adaptation.- 2.5 Vulnerability.- 2.6 Adaptive capacity.- 2.7 Adaptation in practice.- 3 The ethical bases of international adaptation funding.- 3.1 From justice to theories of justice.- 3.2 The scope of distributive justice.- 3.3 The international span of justice.- 3.4 The state’s responsibility in the liberal perspective.- 3.5 The sate’s social vulnerability in the liberal perspective.- 3.6 Other justifications of the statist perspective.- 3.7 The extension of liberal theories of justice to adaptation funding.- 4 The framework of justice.- 4.1 Fair process involving all relevant parties.- 4.2 Responsibility for climate impacts as an ethical basis for raising funds.- 4.3 Social vulnerability to climate impacts as an ethical reference for allocating funds.- 4.4 Liberalism and the environment.- 4.5 Fair adaptation funding: inclusion, specification and commitment.- 4.6 Sharing the burden of adaptation: differentiated historical responsibility.- 4.7 Allocating raised adaptation funds: lack of human security.- 5 The international institutions and instruments governing adaptation funding.- 5.1 Funding adaptation: rationale.- 5.2 Funding adaptation: options.- 5.3 Funding adaptation in the Convention and Kyoto Protocol.- 5.4 The GEF.- 5.5 The sources of funding.- 5.6 Problems and challenges of adaptation funding under the UNFCCC regime.- 5.7 Funding adaptation outside the UNFCCC regime: significant practices.- 6 Evaluation of procedural justice in international adaptation funding.- 6.1 Principal documents: Convention and Kyoto Protocol.- 6.2 Other principal documents.- 6.3 Governance structures, procedures and practices.- 6.4 UNFCCC Institutions.- 6.5 The GEF.- 6.6 The importance ofthe Adaptation Fund and its governance structure.- 6.7 Observation of meetings on the (governance of the) AF: failure (SBI 24) and success (SBI 25, COP/MOP 2).- 7 Evaluation of distributive justice, analysis of fairness and equity criteria and of the role of justice in international adaptation funding.- 7.1 Principal documents: Convention and Kyoto Protocol.- 7.2 Other principal documents.- 7.3 Observation of meetings on the (governance of the) AF: failure (SBI 24) and success (SBI 25, COP/MOP 2).- 7.4 Fairness and equity criteria in documents.- 7.5 Fairness criteria in governance systems.- 7.6 Fairness and equity criteria in formal Adaptation Fund meetings.- 7.7 Some final considerations on justice in international adaptation funding.- 8 Further application of the framework of justice and concluding remarks.- 8.1 Evaluation of post-Kyoto adaptation funding proposals.- 8.2 Conventional funding: budgetary contributions.- 8.3 Unconventional funding: contributions raised through market-based instruments, taxes, and levies.- 8.4 Hybrid Contributions: conventional and unconventional funding.- 8.5 Some final reflections on justice in the post-Kyoto architectures.- 8.6 Main contributions of the book.- 8.7 Policy ideas.- Appendices.- Appendix I – List of Non-Principal documents.- Appendix II – Analysis of documents (procedural justice).- Appendix III – Analysis of documents (distributive justice).- Glossary.- Index.