Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime

von: Marco Grasso

Springer-Verlag, 2009

ISBN: 9789048134397 , 184 Seiten

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Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime


 

Acknowledgments

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Contents

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1 Introduction

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1.1 Justice and Climate Change

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1.2 Aims of the Book

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1.3 Outline of the Book

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References

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2 Adaptation to Climate Change

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2.1 The Prominent Role of Mitigation

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2.2 Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation

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2.3 The Importance of Adaptation

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2.4 The Notion of Adaptation

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2.5 Vulnerability

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2.6 Adaptive Capacity

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2.7 Adaptation in Practice

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References

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3 The Ethical Bases of International Adaptation Funding

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3.1 From Justice to Theories of Justice

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3.2 The Scope of Distributive Justice

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3.3 The International Span of Justice

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3.4 The States Responsibility in the Liberal Perspective

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3.5 The States Social Vulnerability in the Liberal Perspective

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3.6 Other Justifications of the Statist Perspective

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3.7 The Extension of Liberal Theories of Justice to Adaptation Funding

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References

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4 The Framework of Justice

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4.1 Fair Process Involving All Relevant Parties

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4.2 Responsibility for Climate Impacts As an Ethical Basis for Raising Funds

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4.3 Social Vulnerability to Climate Impacts as an Ethical Reference for Allocating Funds

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4.4 Liberalism and the Environment

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4.5 Fair Adaptation Funding: Inclusion, Specification and Commitment

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4.6 Sharing the Burden of Adaptation: Differentiated Historical Responsibility

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4.7 Allocating Raised Adaptation Funds: Lack of Human Security

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References

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5 The International Institutions and Instruments Governing Adaptation Funding

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5.1 Funding Adaptation: Rationale

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5.2 Funding Adaptation: Options

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5.3 Funding Adaptation in the Convention and Kyoto Protocol

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5.4 The GEF

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5.5 The Sources of Funding

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5.5.1 The GEF Trust Fund

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5.5.2 The Special Climate Change Fund

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5.5.3 The Least Developed Countries Fund

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5.5.4 The Adaptation Fund

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5.6 Problems and Challenges of Adaptation Funding Under the UNFCCC Regime

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5.7 Funding Adaptation Outside the UNFCCC Regime: Significant Practices

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References

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6 Evaluation of Procedural Justice in International Adaptation Funding

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6.1 Principal Documents: Convention and Kyoto Protocol

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6.1.1 Recognition: Inclusion of All Countries

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6.1.2 Participation: Possibility to Specify the Terms of Participation

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6.1.3 Distribution of Power: Commitment to Assistance from Richer to Poorer

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6.2 Other Principal Documents

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6.2.1 The Berlin Mandate

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6.2.2 The Buenos Aires Plan of Action

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6.2.3 Beijing Declaration of the Second GEF Assembly

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6.2.4 The Delhi Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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6.2.5 The Bali Action Plan

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6.3 Governance Structures, Procedures and Practices

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6.4 UNFCCC Institutions

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6.4.1 The Conference of the Parties

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6.4.2 The Subsidiary Body for Implementation

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6.4.3 Consultative Group of Experts and Least Developed Countries Expert Group

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6.5 The GEF

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6.6 The Importance of the Adaptation Fund and its Governance Structure

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6.7 Observation of Meetings on the (Governance of the) AF: Failure (SBI 24) and Success (SBI 25, COP/MOP 2)

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6.7.1 The Failure: SBI 24

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6.7.1.1 SBI 24 First Meeting -- Plenary 18/05/06

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6.7.1.2 SBI 24 Third Meeting -- Plenary 19/05/06

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6.7.1.3 SBI 24 Fifth Meeting -- Plenary 25/05/06

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Box 6.1 SBI 24, Agenda item 6: Financial mechanism (Kyoto Protocol): Adaptation Fund. Paragraph 3 of Draft conclusion proposed by the Chair (FCCC/SBI/2006/L.18) (in brackets and bold the word all requested by the G77 and China)

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Adaptation Fund

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Draft conclusions proposed by the Chair

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6.7.2 The Success: SBI 25 and COP/MOP 2

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6.7.2.1 SBI 25 Third Meeting -- Plenary 8/11/06

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6.7.2.2 SBI 25 Fourth Meeting -- Plenary 14/11/06

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6.7.2.3 COP/MOP 2 Tenth Meeting -- Plenary 17/11/06

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6.7.3 Final Considerations

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References

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7 Evaluation of Distributive Justice, Analysis of Fairness and Equity Criteria and of the Role of Justice in International Adaptation Funding

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7.1 Principal Documents: Convention and Kyoto Protocol

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7.1.1 Equality and Difference: Differentiated Historical Responsibility

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7.1.2 Basic Capability Equality: Lack of Human Security

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7.2 Other Principal Documents

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7.2.1 The Berlin Mandate

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7.2.2 The Buenos Aires Plan of Action

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7.2.3 The Bali Action Plan

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7.3 Observation of Meetings on the (Governance of the) AF: Failure (SBI 24) and Success (SBI 25, COP/MOP 2)

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7.3.1 The Failure: SBI 24

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7.3.1.1 SBI 24 First Meeting -- Plenary 18/05/06

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7.3.1.2 SBI 24 Third Meeting -- Plenary 19/05/06

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7.3.1.3 SBI 24 Fifth Meeting -- Plenary 25/05/06

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7.3.2 The Success: SBI 25, COP/MOP 2

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7.3.2.1 SBI 25 Third Meeting -- Plenary 8/11/06

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7.3.2.2 SBI 25 Fourth Meeting -- Plenary 14/11/06

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7.3.2.3 COP/MOP 2 Tenth Meeting -- Plenary 17/11/06

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7.3.3 Final Considerations

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7.4 Fairness and Equity Criteria in Documents

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7.5 Fairness Criteria in Governance Systems

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7.6 Fairness and Equity Criteria in Formal Adaptation Fund Meetings

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7.7 Some Final Considerations on Justice in International Adaptation Funding

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References

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8 Further Application of the Framework of Justice and Concluding Remarks

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8.1 Evaluation of Post-Kyoto Adaptation Funding Proposals

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8.2 Conventional Funding: Budgetary Contributions

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8.2.1 +0.5% GNP from Annex I Parties

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8.2.2 Adaptation Finance Index

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8.2.3 Climate Change Fund

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8.2.4 Models Based on Existing Precedents: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria -- Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol

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8.2.5 Multilateral Financial Structure for Climate Change

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8.3 Unconventional Funding: Contributions Raised Through Market-Based Instruments, Taxes, and Levies

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8.3.1 Carbon-Gold

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8.3.2 Financing Adaptation by Auctioning

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8.3.3 Global Carbon Adaptation Tax

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8.3.4 Greenhouse Development Rights

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8.3.5 Insurance Instruments for Adapting to Climate Risks

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8.3.6 International Air Passenger Adaptation Levy

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8.3.7 International Climate Change Adaptation and National Security Fund

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8.4 Hybrid Funding: Conventional and Unconventional Contributions

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8.4.1 Convention Adaptation Fund

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8.4.2 Indian Financing Architecture

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8.4.3 Integral Financial Mechanism for Living Well

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8.4.4 International Blueprint on Adaptation

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8.4.5 Sao Paulo Proposal

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8.4.6 World Climate Change Fund (Green Fund)

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8.5 Some Final Reflections on Justice in the Post-Kyoto Architectures

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8.6 Main Contributions of the Book

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8.7 Policy Ideas

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References

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Appendix A List of Non-Principal Documents

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Appendix B Analysis of Documents (Procedural Justice)

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B.1 Guidance to the Financial Mechanism

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B.1.1 Recognition: Inclusion of All Countries

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B.1.2 Participation: Possibility to Specify the Terms of Participation

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B.1.3 Distribution of Power: Commitment to Assistance from Richer to Poorer Countries

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B.2 Review of the Financial Mechanism

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B.2.1 Recognition: Inclusion of All Countries

149

B.2.2 Participation: Possibility to Specify the Terms of Participation

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B.2.3 Distribution of Power: Commitment to Assistance from Richer to Poorer

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B.3 The Special Climate Change Fund

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B.3.1 Recognition: Inclusion of All Countries

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B.3.2 Participation: Possibility to Specify the Terms of Participation

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B.3.3 Distribution of Power: Commitment to Assistance from Richer to Poorer

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B.4 The Least Developed Countries Fund

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B.4.1 Recognition: Inclusion of All Countries

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B.4.2 Participation: Possibility to Specify the Terms of Participation

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B.4.3 Distribution of Power: Commitment to Assistance from Richer to Poorer

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B.5 The Adaptation Fund

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B.5.1 Recognition: Inclusion of All Countries

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B.5.2 Participation: Possibility to Specify the Terms of Participation

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B.5.3 Distribution of Power: Commitment to Assistance from Richer to Poorer

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Appendix C Analysis of Documents (Distributive Justice)

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C.1 Guidance to the Financial Mechanism

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C.1.1 Equality and Difference: Differentiated Historical Responsibility

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C.1.2 Basic Capability Equality: Lack of Human Security

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C.2 Review of the Financial Mechanism

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C.2.1 Equality and Difference: Differentiated Historical Responsibility

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C.2.2 Basic Capability Equality: Lack of Human Security

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C.3 The Special Climate Change Fund

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C.3.1 Equality and Difference: Differentiated Historical Responsibility

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C.3.2 Basic Capability Equality: Lack of Human Security

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C.4 The Least Developed Countries Fund

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C.4.1 Equality and Difference: Differentiated Historical Responsibility

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C.4.2 Basic Capability Equality: Lack of Human Security

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C.5 The Adaptation Fund

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C.5.1 Equality and Difference: Differentiated Historical Responsibility

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C.5.2 Basic Capability Equality: Lack of Human Security

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Glossary

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Index

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