Consumption-based emissions accounting: the normative debate |
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Authors: | Göran Duus-Otterström |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;2. Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;3. Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThe normative debate surrounding consumption-based emissions accounting, conceived of as a method for constructing national emissions inventories, is investigated. The focus is to examine whether such accounting would be more just than the current method of production-based accounting. It is argued that there is no good reason to think that consumption-based accounting would be less just, and some reason to think that it would be more just. The consequences of this for the overall question of whether to adopt consumption-based accounting are also investigated. |
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Keywords: | Climate change climate mitigation consumption-based accounting justice production-based accounting |
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