Why and Where to Fund Carbon Capture and Storage
Science and Engineering Ethics 27 (6):70 (2021)
Abstract
This paper puts forward two claims about funding carbon capture and storage. The first claim is that there are moral justifications supporting strategic investment into CO2 storage from global and regional perspectives. One argument draws on the empirical evidence which suggests carbon capture and storage would play a significant role in a portfolio of global solutions to climate change; the other draws on Rawls' notion of legitimate expectations and Moellendorf's Anti-Poverty principle. The second claim is that where to pursue this strategic investment poses a morally non-trivial problem, with considerations like near-term global distributive justice and undermining legitimate expectations favouring investing in developing regions, especially in Asia, and considerations like long-term climate impacts and best uses of resources favouring investing in the relatively wealthy regions that have the best prospects for successful storage development. [Open access]Author's Profile
DOI
10.1007/s11948-021-00344-3
My notes
Similar books and articles
Examining the Role of Carbon Capture and Storage Through an Ethical Lens.Fabien Medvecky, Justine Lacey & Peta Ashworth - 2014 - Science and Engineering Ethics 20 (4):1-18.
The Tasks of Climate Related Energy Ethics – The Example of Carbon Capture and Storage.Klaus Steigleder - 2017 - Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 21 (1):121-146.
Climate Justice and Geoengineering: Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene.Christopher J. Preston (ed.) - 2016 - Rowman & Littlefield International.
The Ethics of Geo-engineering.Robin Attfield - 2018 - Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 12:23-27.
Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice.Dale Jamieson - 2010 - Science and Engineering Ethics 16 (3):431-445.
Pricing Carbon for Climate Justice.Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh - 2019 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 22 (2):109-130.
Fairness in Allocating the Global Emissions Budget.David R. Morrow - 2017 - Environmental Values 26 (6):669-691.
Treading Lightly on the Climate in a Problem-Ridden World.Dan C. Shahar - 2016 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 19 (2):183-195.
Justice and cost effectiveness of consumption-based versus production-based approaches in the case of unilateral climate policies.Karl Steininger, Christian Lininger, Susanne Droege, Dominic Roser, Luke Tomlinson & Lukas Meyer - 2014 - Global Environmental Change 24:75-87.
Climate change and political philosophy: Who owes what to whom?Joerg Chet Tremmel - 2013 - Environmental Values 22 (6):725-749.
Carbon Sink Conservation and Global Justice: Benefitting, Free Riding and Non-compliance.Fabian Schuppert - 2016 - Res Publica 22 (1):99-116.
Analytics
Added to PP
2021-09-27
Downloads
187 (#69,303)
6 months
43 (#31,614)
2021-09-27
Downloads
187 (#69,303)
6 months
43 (#31,614)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
The Need-Efficiency Tradeoff for negative emissions technologies.Kian Mintz-Woo - 2022 - PLoS Climate 1 (8): e0000060.
References found in this work
The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy.Darrel Moellendorf - 2014 - Cambridge University Press.
How legitimate expectations matter in climate justice.Lukas H. Meyer & Pranay Sanklecha - 2014 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 13 (4):369-393.
Individual Expectations and Climate Justice.Lukas H. Meyer & Pranay Sanklecha - 2011 - Analyse & Kritik 33 (2):449-472.
Ethics, equity and the economics of climate change paper 1: Science and philosophy.Nicholas Stern - 2014 - Economics and Philosophy 30 (3):397-444.
On the Permissibility (Or Otherwise) of Negative Emissions.Dominic Lenzi - 2021 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 24 (2):123-136.