The Principles Of Initial Allocation Of Carbon Emission Rights

Climate change is the biggest challenge the human being has ever faced to now. As an effectiveway to deal with climate change, the initial allocation of carbon emission rights received a lot ofscholars’ attention. Facing such a complex problem, this article only from the perspective of the normsand principles to discuss this issue. This article point out the important of the fair guidelines, discuss thevarious allocation criteria from the fair guidelines.Before Industrial Revolution Greenhouse gases can be released without any restrictions. With thedevelopment of human society, the atmospheric greenhouse gas increased rapidly and triggered a seriesof climate catastrophe. the right value of carbon emission became more and more prominent. the《United Nations Climate Change Framework Convention》and《Kyoto Protocol》marks the birth ofCarbon emission rights. This article focus the following problem:what property does the carbonemissions right have? what content and meaning does the fairness guidelines have?which fairness ofthe allocation criteria should be comply with? The first part of this article focus on the property of theright and point that carbon emissions rights is a fundamental human rights, a environmental propertyrights of public resource, and have a both“right&obligation”property; The second part of this articlefocus on content of the fairness guidelines and the Specific allocation criteria which should be complywith. The third part of this article focus on the analysis of different initial distribution classificationaccording to different allocation criteria.At last the author give her views about this problem from theprinciples of perspective.