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Equity and Climate Change

Grant reference: RES-066-27-0007

Article (submitted) details

Title Climate change and the future : discounting for time, wealth and risk

Description This article examines whether the practice of 'discounting' is ethically defensible. It considers three different arguments for discounting the future and finds each unpersuasive.

Url http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2009.01445.x

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Language English

Primary contributor

Author Simon Caney

Keywords

discounting; time preference; risk and uncertainty; human rights; climatic change; intergenerational justice

Additional details

Date published 01 January 2009

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Caney, Simon. Climate change and the future : discounting for time, wealth and risk.

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Caney Simon. Climate change and the future : discounting for time, wealth and risk.