Climate justice: climate change, resource conflicts, and social justice

2015 ◽  
pp. 83-98
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Resource Conflicts ◽  
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.

Introduction: Global Justice and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
Megan Blomfield
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nonideal Theory ◽  
Resource Conflicts ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation

This chapter introduces climate change as a problem of natural resource justice by outlining some real-world examples of resource conflicts that are being generated, or exacerbated, by climate change. It then provides some necessary background for the discussion to follow. The science and predicted impacts of climate change are explained, along with the options for responding to this problem, such as mitigation and adaptation. The chapter then briefly introduces the debate about global justice and climate change, as it has appeared in the political philosophy literature, looking at the human rights approach, the distributive justice approach, and the key methodological distinctions between integrationism and isolationism and ideal versus nonideal theory. After providing further characterization of, and motivation for, the natural resources approach to climate justice that is taken in the work, it concludes with an outline of the chapters to follow.

Efforts to Update the Climate Emergency Framework: From Australia to the World and Back to Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Hans A. Baer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
System Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
The World

Abstract The climate emergency framework, which started in Australia around 2008, has been adopted in many countries, particularly the United States and United Kingdom. In terms of the Australian scenario, in my dual roles as an anthropologist and climate activist, I witnessed the initial development of the climate emergency framework and more recent efforts to update it in Australia at the 2020 National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne on February 14–15, 2020. From my perspective as an eco-socialist, I argue that the climate emergency framework seeks to operate within the parameters of global capitalism and in doing so downplays social justice issues. There is a need for the climate emergency movement to become part and parcel of a larger climate justice movement, not simply a climate movement that emphasizes techno-fixes, and that says, “system change, not climate change.”

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