• Is the Beneficiary Pays Principle Essential in Climate Justice? 

      Heyward, Jennifer Clare (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-09)
      The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ admits many interpretations. In the philosophical literature on climate justice, it has typically been cashed out in terms of the following three principles: the ability to pay principle (APP), the beneficiary pays principle (BPP), and the contribution to problem principle (CPP). Many ...
    • Reassessing the Needs for Carbon Dioxide Removal: Moral Implications of Alternative Climate Target Pathways 

      Voget-Kleschin, Lieske; Baatz, Christian; Heyward, Jennifer Clare; van Vuuren, Detlef; Mengis, Nadine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-05)
      Non-technical summary. Scenarios compatible with the Paris agreement’s temperature goal of 1.5 °C involve carbon dioxide removal measures – measures that actively remove CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere – on a massive scale. Such large-scale implementations raise significant ethical problems. Van Vuuren et al. (2018), as well as the current IPCC scenarios, show that reduction in energy and or ...
    • Special Claims from Improvement: A Comment on Armstrong 

      Heyward, Jennifer Clare; Lenzi, Dominic (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-28)
      Chris Armstrong argues that attempts at justifying special claims over natural resources generally take one of two forms: arguments from improvement and arguments from attachment. We argue that Armstrong fails to establish that the distinction between natural resources and improved resources has no normative significance. He succeeds only in showing that ‘improvers’ (whoever they may be) are ...
    • Territory, self-determination, and climate change: Reflections on Anna Stilz’s Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration 

      Heyward, Jennifer Clare (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-02)
      The assertion of territorial claims is one of the longest standing political issues in the world and, as the number of ongoing disputes shows, has lost none of its significance in contemporary times. Humans long for a place they can call “theirs”: whether that involves an individual being able to have a “room of one’s own” (Woolf, 1929) within a household, or being able to control the behavior of ...