Climate change is fundamentally a normative issue. Although the increasingly accurate – and daunting – findings of the environmental sciences, the strategic interactions between local and international actors, and the legal framework for environmental policies are likely to attract public attention and academic scrutiny, the normative dimensions of environmental policies are still unavoidable. The basic institutional arrangement for climate policy is constituted by normative considerations. For example, one of the main objectives of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on […]