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Allocation: Allocation in economics refers to the distribution of resources, goods, or services in an economy, often influenced by market mechanisms, government policies, or other factors. It addresses how scarce resources are assigned to meet various needs and wants.
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Cosmopolitanism on Allocation - Dictionary of Arguments

Norgaard I 329
Allocation/Emissions/Individuals/Cosmopolitanism: [A] relatively recent development is the emergence of allocation principles which take the cosmopolitan approach even further by focusing on individuals rather than countries. Two recent proposals which look at inequality within countries (and thus implicitly at individuals) are
Norgaard I 330
the Greenhouse Development Rights framework (Baer et al. 2008(1), 2010(2)) and the proposal of Chakravarty et al. (2009(3)). The former allocates obligations on the basis of a combined indicator of responsibility and capacity, exempting both income and emissions below a threshold; the latter focuses only on emissions and would require high‐emitting individuals to reduce while low emitters are allowed to increase emissions. Both are thus compatible with the long‐standing recognition of the distinction between ‘luxury’ and ‘subsistence’ emissions (Agarwal and Narain 1991(4); Shue 1993(5)), but both still conclude that obligations, even if derived from looking at individuals, would still be incumbent on countries. (…) Paul Harris (2010)(6) develops the cosmopolitan focus on individuals in much greater detail, focusing at length on the wealth and emissions of the middle and wealthy classes in developing countries, and arguing for a more direct assessment of obligations on individuals. This approach is implicitly backed up by Simon Caney (2009)(7), who argues against collective notions of responsibility but includes capacity and recent (e.g. since 1990) historical emissions in his account of individually based obligations.

1. Baer, P. et al. 2008. The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework. 2nd edn., Heinrich Böll Stiftung, EcoEquity, Stockholm Environment Institute and Christian Aid. Available at (http://gdrights.org/wp‐content/uploads/2009/01/thegdrsframework.pdf) (Link does not work as of 14/04/19)
2. Bear, P. et al. 2010. Greenhouse development rights: A framework for climate protection that is ‘more fair’ than equal per capita emissions rights. Pp. 215–30 in S. M. Gardiner, S. Caney, D. Jamieson, and H. Shue (eds.), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Chakravarty, S., Chikkatur, A., de Coninck, H., Pacala, S., Socolow, R., and Tavoni, M. 2009. Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106:11885–8.
4. Agarwal, A., and S. Narain, S. 1991. Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment.
5. Shue, H. 1993. Subsistence emissions and luxury emissions. Law and Policy 15: 39–59.
6. Harris, P. G. 2010. World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global Justice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
7. Caney, S. 2009. Human rights, responsibilities and climate change. In C. R. Beitz and R. E. Goodin (eds.), Global Basic Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Baer, Paul: “International Justice”, In: John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg (eds.) (2011): The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


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Cosmopolitanism
Norgaard I
Richard Norgaard
John S. Dryzek
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society Oxford 2011


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