Climate Emergency and Global Justice: Reading List

• Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts
  by Damon et al. 2021, Rev. of Envoronmental Economics and Policy, 13, 1.
• Entitlement theory of justice and end-state fairness in the allocation of goods,
  by Ju and Moreno-Ternero, 2018, Economics and Philosophy, 34(3), Nov. 2018.
• Fair Allocation of Disputed Properties,
  by Ju and Moreno-Ternero, 2017, International Economic Review, 58, 1279-130, Nov. 2017. Working Paper version
• Fair international protocols for the abatement of GHG emissions,
  by Ju et al. 2021, Energy Economics, 94.

Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1093/reep/rey017

...rewarding polluting incumbents can be detrimental to longterm social welfare and that repeated grandfathering can discourage proactive behavior. We discuss the extent to which the principle of grandfathering entrenches the status quo in many pollution control cases. Next we investigate empirically how grandfathering is used in the local management of CPRs throughout the world. We then discuss the role of grandfathering in multilateral climate negotiations and end with some tentative conclusions and lessons learned....