The cost of sovereignty: Statism and the distribution of climate change duties

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Politicologie (BSc)

Laviolette Di Carpegna, Oscar (2022)

The cost of sovereignty: Statism and the distribution of climate change duties

Bachelor thesis | Politicologie (BSc)

This thesis looks at the compatibility of statism with principles of distribution of climate change costs. Two strands of statism are analysed, communitarianism and institutionalism, in relation to three principles of distribution of costs, the Polluter Pays Principle (PP), the Beneficiary Pays Principle (BP) and the Ability to Pay Principle (AP). This thesis focusses on statism because its applicability to climate change is understudied in the climate justice literature. The main argument is that statism is only partially compatible with some of the principles of distribution of costs. Institutionalists are only partially compatible with the PP and the AP but not with the BP. Communitarianism on the other hand, is applicable to all three principles but always to a limited extent.