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Lukas H. Meyer: Fairness is most relevant for country shares of the remaining carbon budget
Lukas H. Meyer, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria, and Speaker of the Field of Excellence Climate Change Graz, the Doctoral Programme Climate Change, and the Working Unit MoraIn my talk I argue that fairness concerns are decisive for eventual cumulative emission allocations shown in terms of quantified national shares.I will show that major fairness concerns are quantitatively critical for the allocation of the global carbon budget across countries. The budget is limited by the aim of staying well below 2°C. Minimal fairness requirements include securing basic needs, attributing historical responsibility for past emissions, accounting for benefits from past emissions, and not exceeding countries’ societally feasible emission reduction rate. The argument in favor of taking into account these fairness concerns reflects a critique of both simple equality and staged approaches, the former demanding the equal-per-capita distribution from now on, the latter preserving the inequality of the status-quo levels of emissions for the transformation period. I argue that the overall most plausible approach is a four-fold qualified version of the equal-per-capita view that incorporates the legitimate reasons for grandfathering.
Thomas Sommer-Houdeville: Remaking Iraq
- Neoliberalism and a System of violence after the US invasion, 2003-2011 Dr Thomas Sommer-Houdeville, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology. ABSTRACT After the invasion of Iraq and the destructi
False Choices: A Response to Michael Ignatieff's The Ordinary Virtues
King's Law Journal 30, 356-362 Abstract Part political journalism, travel memoir, political theory, sociology, anthropology, and moral psychology, Michael Ignatieff’s The Ordinary Virtues defies easy de
Policy Paper: Global population growth
IFFS Policy Paper: 2022:1 With the rapid rise of the global human population, long term consequences materialize. These concern the welfare of future generations and the safety of eco-systems on the pl
Mollie Gerver: Refugee Resettlement and Adaptive Preferences
Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Register here Abstract Aid organizations are increasingly lobbying wealthy countries to send aid to refugees in neighboring poorer count
Committing to Priorities: Incompleteness in Macro-Level Health Care Allocation and Its Implications
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 43: 724-745. Abstract This article argues that values that apply to health care allocation entail the possibility of “spectrum arguments,” and that it is plausible that
Toward a hybrid theory of how to allocate health-related resources
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Abstract How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we sh

Completed: Longtermism
What happens to moral philosophy, decision theory, and our real-life decisions, if we consider that in fact many of the decisions we make should take into account the consequences in a very far future?
Rule-consequentialism, procreative freedom, and future generations
Ratio Abstract In this paper I analyse how procreative freedom poses a challenge for rule-consequentialism. First, I reconstruct the rule-consequentialist case for procreative freedom. Second, I argue t
Mike Otsuka: How to guard against the risk of living too long: the case for collective pensions
Mike (Michael) Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this paper, I defend the realization here and now of a type of occupational pension that is collective rather tha