Academic

Ackerly & Vandenbergh on Climate Change Justice

By Lawrence Solum

Brooke A. Ackerly and Michael P. Vandenbergh (Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University - School of Law) have posted Climate Change Justice: The Challenge for Global Governance (Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (GIELR), Vol. 20, p. 553, 2008) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

Private equity offsets are a partial solution to the difficult justice issues raised on the global level by climate change. Equity offsets allow individuals to follow their moral intuitions about the global differences in carbon emissions and the impact of global warming on individual lives. An active equity offset market could precede a post-Kyoto international agreement for global emissions reductions and could enhance the prospects for the adoption of such an agreement.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).