Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy
Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between and justice within generations. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals summit in September 2015, and the Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, brought climate justice center stage in global discussions. In the run-up to Paris, Mary Robinson instituted the Climate Justice Dialogue. The editors of this volume, an economist and a philosopher, served on the High Level Advisory Committee of the Climate Justice Dialogue. During this process they noted the overlap and mutual enforcement between the economic and philosophical discourses on climate justice, but also the great need for these strands to come together to support the public and policy discourse. The authors in this collection demonstrate various different ways of bringing about this integration.