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Markets, morality and climate change: what, if anything, is wrong with emissions trading?
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This article explores whether emissions trading is morally defensible. To do so it examines three different kinds of moral consideration which might be used to judge emissions trading. The first kind makes what I term an 'ethical' objection, and holds that utilising market instruments to combat climate change is inherently objectionable. I examine three versions if this 'ethical' argument but find none persuasive. The remainder of the article considers two additional moral considerations, bot...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- New Political Economy Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 197-224
- Publication date:
- 2010-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-9923
- ISSN:
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1356-3467
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:5270
- Deposit date:
- 2011-04-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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- This article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Caney, S. (2010). 'Markets, morality and climate change: what, if anything, is wrong with emissions trading?', New Political Economy 15(2), 197-224. [Available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13563467.asp].
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