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This chapter applies the ethical framework developed so far to the complex of climate and development policies. The central message is that mitigation, adaptation and development should not be considered as three separate and conflicting aims but much more as three aspects of one climate-compatible development strategy. Considerations of risks are integrated by the demand to maximize the likelihood of every person possessing the preconditions of a human dignified live. While the financial, technological, and institutional capacity of nations emerges as a central criterion for burden sharing, in practice various schemes of distribution of emission rights and the costs of adaptation and development are compatible with the basic approach defended here. The ethical principles outlined here do not suffice to determine “the one” correct policy in the specific areas considered here: Remaining tensions, including the treatment of risk, are to be resolved in open and transparent debate and mechanisms of decision making respecting the requirements of fair procedures outlined in Chap. 7, including the demands of subsidiarity.
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Gösele, A., Wallacher, J. (2012). Criteria for Compatibility of Climate and Development Policies. In: Edenhofer, O., Wallacher, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Reder, M., Knopf, B., Müller, J. (eds) Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4540-7_9
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