Climate Justice - What Rich Nations Owe the World - and the Future

The social cost of carbon: The most important number you''ve never heard of—and what it means.


If you''re injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you''ve caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In
Invoking principles of corrective justice and distributive justice, Sunstein argues that rich countries should pay for the harms that they have caused and that all of us are obliged to take steps to protect future generations from serious climate-related damage. He shows how “choice engines,” informed by artificial intelligence, can enable people to save money and to reduce the harms they produce. The book casts new light on the “social cost of carbon,” the most important number in climate change debates—and explains how intergenerational neutrality and international neutrality can help all nations, above all the United States and China, do what must be done.

About the author

Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the cofounder and codirector of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge (all published by the MIT Press), Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), How to Become Famous, and other books.

Product details

• Authors: Cass R Sunstein, Cass R. Sunstein, Sunstein Cass R.
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9780262049467
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04946-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Geography, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries