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Book SynopsisThis collection of provocative essays re-evaluates the worldâs failed policy responses to climate change, in the process demonstrating how cosmopolitan ethics can inform global environmental governance.
Trade ReviewWe've had 20 years of government-level conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and Cancun, but greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Taking a cosmopolitan approach to climate change in this excellent and timely book, Paul Harris and his contributors argue that citizen action is an essential complement to state action. The challenging, unsettling and absolutely vital argument of these high-quality essays is that distance makes no moral difference in our globalised world; individual high emitters have a duty to reduce their emissions, wherever they are. --- Andrew Dobson, Keele, University, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Climate Change Policy Paul G. Harris 2. Climate Justice as Globalized Responsibility: Mitigation, Adaptation and Avoiding Harm to Others Steve Vanderheiden 3. Climate Change and the Cosmopolitan Responsibility of Individuals: Policy Vanguards Nigel Dower 4. Individual Responsibility and Voluntary Action on Climate Change: Activating Agency Jennifer Kent 5. Cosmopolitan Solutions ‘From Below’: Climate Change, International Law and the Capitalist Challenge Romain Felli 6. Sharing the Burdens of Climate Change: Environmental Justice and Qualified Cosmopolitanism Michael W. Howard 7. Cosmopolitanism and Hegemony: The United States and Climate Change Robert Paehlke 8. Overcoming the Planetary Prisoners’ Dilemma: Cosmopolitan Ethos and Pluralist Cooperation Philip S. Golub and Jean-Paul Maréchal 9. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and the Climate Change Regime: Moving Beyond International Doctrine Paul G. Harris Index
