Sharing the Burden of Adaptation Financing: An Assessment of the Contributions of Countries

摘要: Climate change may cause most harm to countries that contribute least greenhouse gas emissions. This paper identifies deontology, solidarity and consequentialism as the principles can serve a basis for fair international burden sharing scheme of adaptation costs. We translate these into criteria be applied in assigning contributions individual countries, namely historical responsibility, equality capacity pay. Specific political scientific choices are discussed, highlighting implications burden-sharing. Combining responsibility pay seems promising starting point negotiations on design burden-sharing schemes. From numerical assessment, it is clear UNFCCC Annex I carry greatest under scenarios, but differ substantially subject choice an indicator The total financial contribution by could range $55-68 billion annually.