Comparing Public Rationales for Justice in Mitigation and Adaptation Climate Policy Dilemmas

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• Dr. Sonja Klinsky, Department of Economics, Cambridge University (Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia)
• Tuesday 07 June 2011, 12:00-13:00
• seminar room 1, Laundress Lane.

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This study examines public rationales about justice and burden-sharing in climate change mitigation and adaptation policy. What arguments about justice resonate from a mitigation perspective, which ones are dominant from an adaptation perspective, and what might this suggest about the contours of politically acceptable climate policy? Using think-aloud protocols and a structured elicitation approach with members of the lay public, this study provides evidence that the two types of climate policy trigger different sets of arguments about justice. When asked about mitigation burden-sharing participants overwhelmingly depending on arguments about causality. In contrast, in discussions of adaptation participants emphasized ideas of need and ability, and used social and spatial distance to modify the allocation of responsibility.

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