Climate Policy in the Age of Trump

verfasst von

Mathias Frisch

Abstract

The Trump administration is in the process of undoing what were the two central planks of President Obama’s climate policy: First, Trump has called for a review of how the social cost of carbon is calculated in used in analyses of regulatory rule making and, second, Trump has announced that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. In this paper I examine some of the conservative critics’ objections to the first plank: calculations of the social cost of carbon in climate cost benefit analyses. I argue that while some of these criticisms are justified, the criticisms end up strengthening arguments for the importance of the second plank: the urgent need for an ambitious climate policy, in accord with the Paris Agreement, as precaution against exposing others to the risk of catastrophic harms.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Philosophie

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Band

27

Seiten

E87-E106

ISSN

1054-6863

Publikationsdatum

06.2017

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Gesundheit (Sozialwissenschaften), Health policy, Probleme, Ethik und rechtliche Aspekte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und -philosophie

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 13 – Klimaschutzmaßnahmen, SDG 3 – Gute Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2017.0027 (Zugang: Geschlossen)