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    It is not the case that Climate justice frameworks should focus on protecting and promoting human interests rather than on distributing emissions.

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    • 1.Emissions rights function as tradeable entitlements that determine who bears the burdens of decarbonization, making their distribution irreducibly a matter of justice.
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    • 2.Rawls's difference principle requires that the structure of basic institutions—including atmospheric access—be evaluated independently of the interests they contingently serve.
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    • 3.Collapsing distributive questions into interest-satisfaction obscures how atmospheric capacity, like property, constitutes a prior scheme of cooperation requiring just terms.
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    • 1.Henry Shue's foundational distinction between subsistence and luxury emissions shows that the moral weight of an emission derives from its type, not merely the interest behind it.
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    • 2.Two emissions serving equally 'important' interests may differ radically in replaceability, making interest-satisfaction an insufficient basis for allocation without reference to emission-level facts.
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    • 1.Greenhouse gas emissions arise primarily from activities that serve important human interests such as heating, cooling, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture.
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    • 2.The morally relevant object of concern is the satisfaction of important human interests, not emissions as such.
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    • 3.Focusing on emissions rather than the underlying interests conflates a by-product with what actually carries moral weight.
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