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Based on the optimal temperatures for the agriculture, industry and service sectors productivity as well as climate projections of the year 2100 under the business as usual path per country, this chapter reveals for the very first time climate winners and losers around the world from now on until the year 2100. Overall and simply seen from a narrow-minded GDP perspective, the world will macroeconomically benefit more from climate change until 2100 than lose. Winning and losing from a warming earth is significantly positively correlated with the Paris COP 21 emissions country percentage of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) for ratification. The chapter concludes with introducing the climatorial imperative—advocating for the need for fairness in the distribution of the global earth benefits among nations based on Kant’s imperative to only engage in actions one wants to experience themselves being done to oneself. While the method to measure the gains from climate change can certainly be refined in future studies, the following research is meant as very first preliminary step to open a gate to find climate mitigation incentives from a welfare redistribution perspective.

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    http://cisdl.org/public/docs/news/brief_common.pdf

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    http://www.ghf-ge.org/human-impact-report.pdf

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    http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/10.pdf#page=30

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    https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

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    http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/agriculture/agri_agrometeorology_temp.html

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    http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/10.pdf#page=30

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    http://catholicecology.net/blog/laudato-si-climate-common-good

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    http://www.businessinsider.com/map-shows-how-much-of-nyc-could-be-underwater-in-200-years-2015-7

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    https://www.icrc.org/en/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions

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    https://www.icrc.org/en/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions

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    http://cisdl.org/public/docs/news/brief_common.pdf

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    http://www.unep.org/documents.multilingual/default.asp?documentid=78&id=1163

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    http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/views-on-china-and-copenhagen/?_r=0

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Puaschunder, J. (2020). Global Climate Justice. In: Governance & Climate Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63281-0_5

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