Locating “Climate Justice” within a National Context

Climate Justice

Justice and Climate Change

Climate change raises complex issues of science, economics, and politics; it also raises difficult issues of justice. Poor nations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, in part because they are poor. Wealthy nations have less at risk, in part because they are wealthy. It is both tempting and plausible to suggest that for either emissions reductions or adaptation, wealthy nations owe...

Justice within social dilemmas.

The defining feature of social dilemma situations is the inherent conflict faced by those involved: should one act in his or her own individual best interest or sacrifice a measure of one's personal payoff to help maximize the joint payoff of the group as a whole? In such dilemmas, those making individualistic and defecting choices are always at a competitive advantage relative to those who cho...

No Justice in Climate Policy ?

arguments about morality, justice, and economic inequality that he offers in support of his proposal for a WCB together with a price on carbon. I then address objections to Broome's position, rebut some of them, and contrast his position to that of P&W. (C) Broome Like P&W, Broome takes as his starting point the fact that the climate treaty negotiation participants who have the most power are u...

Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice

In this paper I make the following claims. In order to see anthropogenic climate change as clearly involving moral wrongs and global injustices, we will have to revise some central concepts in these domains. Moreover, climate change threatens another value ("respect for nature") that cannot easily be taken up by concerns of global justice or moral responsibility.