The European Green Deal and the Prospects of a “Just Transition”to Carbon Neutrality from a Rawlsian Perspective
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This article examines the European Green Deal (EGD) from the perspective of John Rawls’ theory of justice. It starts with an overview over the main features of the EGD, which was adopted by the European Union (EU) in 2019 in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The study then gives an outline of the relevant elements of Rawls’ theory of justice and explains its relationship with notions of environmental justice. This particularly concerns the principles of justice introduced by Rawls such as the principle of equal basic liberties, the difference principle, the just savings principle, and the principle of fair equality of opportunity. These principles form the basis for the examination of the EGD. The analysis of the EGD concentrates on three dimensions of justice: intragenerational justice, intergenerational justice, and global justice. It was found that the EGD does not conform to any of the three types of justice in the Rawlsian sense. For each of these types of justice there are important elements missing in the EGD that would have to be present in it for it to constitute a framework for a just policy from a Rawlsian point of view.
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This article examines the European Green Deal (EGD) from the perspective of John Rawls’ theory of justice. It starts with an overview over the main features of the EGD, which was adopted by the European Union (EU) in 2019 in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The study then gives an outline of the relevant elements of Rawls’ theory of justice and explains its relationship with notions of environmental justice. This particularly concerns the principles of justice introduced by Rawls such as the principle of equal basic liberties, the difference principle, the just savings principle, and the principle of fair equality of opportunity. These principles form the basis for the examination of the EGD. The analysis of the EGD concentrates on three dimensions of justice: intragenerational justice, intergenerational justice, and global justice. It was found that the EGD does not conform to any of the three types of justice in the Rawlsian sense. For each of these types of justice there are important elements missing in the EGD that would have to be present in it for it to constitute a framework for a just policy from a Rawlsian point of view.
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