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Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change: Prologue Read chapter Read first chapter

2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Ethics of International Action on Climate Change: How Would Mahatma Gandhi Have Looked at it?

Author : M. V. Nadkarni

Published in: Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Moral responsibilities and Equity are the twin principles to guide mitigation of climate change, both for developed and developing countries, both between and within them. They refer as much to action taken as to emission rights. Instead of taking up the same old eco-destructive path based on endless multiplication of wants, developing countries should find development alternatives and lifestyles which are sustainable as per Gandhi's vision. Equity requires allotment of equal per capita carbon rights.

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Footnotes
1
Among several sources, see at least: Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 and 2007, Geneva: IPCC; International Scientific Steering Committee (2005); World Bank (2010).
 
2
The following is a summary of what transpired at Cancun is based on Dutta and Ghosh (2011:26–34).
 
3
I have discussed this issue at greater length in Nadkarni (2011) especially in Chapters 3 and 4.
 
4
Quoted in Guha (2000: 22). Parentheses added by Guha.
 
5
As narrated in TOI Team (2011: 2).
 
6
Cited in Foreword by Narayanbhai Desai in TOI Team (2011).
 
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Metadata
Title
Ethics of International Action on Climate Change: How Would Mahatma Gandhi Have Looked at it?
Author
M. V. Nadkarni
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-36142-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-36143-2

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_3