scholarly journals Climate Justice, Climate Change Discourse, and the Failure of the Elite-Driven Democracy: A Think Piece

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine Burkett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Justice Climate

Climate Change and Inequity: How to Think about Inequities in Different Dimensions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Hassoun ◽  
Anders Herlitz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Intergenerational Equity ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Climate Negotiations ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Justice Climate

This chapter introduces a new framework for thinking about climate justice. Climate change and climate negotiations actualize equity considerations in at least three relevant dimensions: distributions of benefits and burdens across countries, within countries, and across individuals in the world. Our proposed framework enables researchers and policymakers to visualize and combine different equity considerations in these dimensions in a novel way. The simplicity of the framework can facilitate putting equity considerations back on the table in international negotiations. The flexibility of the framework enables expansions and incorporations of other equity considerations, for example intergenerational equity.

Climate Justice

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
To Come ◽  
Run Up ◽  
High Level

Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations 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, former president of Ireland and the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, 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. They noted the overlap and mutual enforcement between the economic and philosophical discourses on climate justice. But they also noted the great need for these strands to come together to support the public and policy discourse. This volume is the result.

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