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Abstract
Although the international community repetitively pledged considerable amounts of adaptation finance to the global South, only little has been provided so far. Different instruments have been proposed to generate more funding and this paper aims at identifying those that are most suitable to raise adaptation finance in a just way. The instrument assessment is based on the following main criteria: fairness, effectiveness and feasibility. The criteria are applied to four instruments: contributions from domestic budgets, international carbon taxes collected at the national level, border tax adjustments as well as selling emissions allowances in domestic trading schemes. Domestic emission trading schemes and border tax adjustments achieve the best-or rather, the least bad-results. Two further findings are that (feasible) instruments are unable make agents pay for past excessive emissions and that all instruments generate rather small amounts of funding. As a consequence of the latter, adaptation finance will continue to be highly insufficient in all likelihood.

From 2008 to 2012, the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU) funded an environmental ethics focus track within its doctoral fellowship programme. As the present anthology shows, the research topics of the fellows in the focus track reached far beyond the philosophical sub-discipline of environmental ethics — from action and sustainability theory to economics, social science, and literary criticism. In April 2012, a concluding conference organised by the fellows was held at the University of Greifswald. From this conference, the contributions to this volume emerge. Meeting in the fellowship focus track, some of the scholars involved realised for the first time that neighbouring environment-related disciplines in the humanities had taken a road similar to their own specialisation. Even in the sub-group of environmental philosophers, views diverged on what fell inside the boundaries of their field and how to locate in the relation to the natural sciences, empirical social research, and humanities. The present anthology offers insights into the exploratory movements and communication efforts that characterise the development of the environmental humanities to this day.