This joint statement was released by the Initiative for Policy Dialog, a network/organization formed by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz to stimulate “a heterodox policy dialogue on major issues in international development.” Judging by the results of the IPD’s dialog on burden sharing, it does a pretty good job. The group that was brought together was certainly heterodox, and approached the problem with refreshing straight-forwardness. For example, it concluded that “Equal per-capita rights to the atmosphere, based on cumulative emissions from a reference date population, remain the minimum ethical standard for an equitable climate change agreement.” That’s minimum.
