Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: On the Significance of Historical Emissions for Climate Ethics -- The Normative Significance of Past Emissions -- The Relevance of Ignorance about the Harmful Effects of Emissions -- Responding to Climate Change Effectively and Ethically Defensibly -- References -- 1 Climate Ethics, Affirmative Action, and Unjust Enrichment -- Inter- and Intra-Generational Climate Justice -- Historically Sensitive vs. A-Historical Approaches -- Affirmative Action -- Unjust Enrichment -- Some Difficulties -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Historical Responsibility and Climate Change -- Responsibility and Culpability -- Responsibility for Reparation -- What Is Owed? -- References -- 3 Historical Emissions: Does Ignorance Matter? -- References -- 4 How Legal Systems Deal with Issues of Responsibility for Past Harmful Behavior -- I Introduction -- II Liability for Environmental Harm in International Law -- III Liability for Hazardous Waste and Other Environmental Harms -- A Liability under the U.S. Superfund Law -- 1 Introduction to CERCLA -- 2 Scope of Liability -- 3 Strict Liability and Retroactivity -- B Liability for Environmental Harm in the European Union -- 1 Introduction to the EU Directive -- 2 Liability Limitations -- IV Products Liability -- A The Default Requirement of Fault -- B Products Liability in the United States -- 1 Scope of Liability -- 2 The State-of-the-Art Defense -- C Products Liability in the European Union -- 1 Scope of Liability under the 1985 Directive -- 2 Foreseeability of Harm -- V Implications for Climate Change Responsibility -- References -- 5 Asking Beneficiaries to Pay for Past Pollution -- I Three ''Pure'' Versions of the BPP -- II Benefits and Providing Aid -- III Benefits and Compensation. , IV Are Past Polluters and Current Beneficiaries Ever Really Distinct? -- V Conclusion -- References -- 6 Benefiting from Unjust Acts and Benefiting from Injustice: Historical Emissions and the Beneficiary Pays Principle -- I Introduction -- II The PPP and Historical Emissions -- III The BPP and Historical Emissions -- IV Conclusion -- References -- 7 A Luck-Based Moral Defense of Grandfathering -- I Grandfathering -- II Bovens' Lockean Approach -- III A Critique of Bovens' Approach -- IV The Importance of Luck -- V Brute Bad Luck Meets Western Lifestyles -- V.1 Changing an Economy -- V.2 Changing Habits -- VI Conclusion -- References -- 8 In Defense of Emissions Egalitarianism? -- I Introduction -- II The Argument for Emissions Egalitarianism -- III Procedural and Conceptual Clarifications -- IV Holism vs. Atomism -- IV.1 A First Challenge - EE Ignores Important Aspects of Mitigation -- IV.2 A Second Challenge - EE Ignores Other Climate-Related Burdens -- IV.3 Vanderheiden's Arguments for a Separate Treatment of Mitigation -- IV.4 A Rights-Based Argument for Treating Mitigation Separately? -- V Integration vs. Isolation -- V.1 A Libertarian Argument in Defense of Emissions Egalitarianism? -- V.2 An Additional Argument in Favor of Integration: Financing Adaptation -- V.3 Intermediate Conclusion -- VI The Virtue of Simplicity: A Practical Argument in Favor of EE? -- VI.1 Caney's Five-Step Procedure -- VI.2 Comparing Emissions Egalitarianism with the Five-Step Procedure -- Justice -- Institutional Feasibility -- Political Feasibility -- Summary -- VII Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 In the Name of Political Possibility: A New Proposal for Thinking About the Role and Relevance of Historical Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- Introduction -- I Accounting for Historical Responsibility: Tension between the Ideal and the Real. , II Political Feasibility -- III Historical Responsibility: A Proposal -- 1990 Onward: A Case for Moral Responsibility -- Can Historical Trends Be Justified? -- IV Moral Desirability and Securing a More Just Future -- V Balancing Political Feasibility and Moral Desirability -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Right to Development and Historical Emissions: A Perspective from the Particularly Vulnerable Countries -- Introduction -- Policy Proposals and Principles of Ethics Regarding Distribution of Emission Rights, or Responsibility for Emissions Reduction -- PVCs Are Trapped in a Triple Bind of Increasing Climate Change Impacts, Unsupportive Global Mitigation Measures, and Lack of Adaptation Finance -- Climate Change, Security, and Development Rights -- A Differential Application of the PPP between Developing and Industrial Countries -- No-Harm Rule and State Responsibility -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.