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Climate change and global justice

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  • Darrell Moellendorf

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In this article, I examine matters concerning justice and climate change in light of current work in global justice. I briefly discuss some of the most important contemporary work by political philosophers and theorist on global justice and relate it to various considerations regarding justice and climate change. After briefly surveying the international treaty context, I critically discuss several issues, including climate change and human rights, responsibility for historical emissions and the polluter‐pays principle, the ability to pay principle, grandfathering entitlements to emit greenhouse gasses, equal per capita emissions entitlements, the right to sustainable development, and responsibility for financing adaptation to climate change. This set of issues does not exhaust the list of considerations of global justice and climate change, but it includes some of the most important of those considerations. WIREs Clim Change 2012, 3:131–143. doi: 10.1002/wcc.158 This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice

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  • Darrell Moellendorf, 2012. "Climate change and global justice," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 3(2), pages 131-143, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:wirecc:v:3:y:2012:i:2:p:131-143
    DOI: 10.1002/wcc.158
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    1. Alessandro Del Ponte & Aidas Masiliūnas & Noah Lim, 2023. "Information about historical emissions drives the division of climate change mitigation costs," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-8, December.
    2. Valentin Beck & Bernd Ladwig, 2021. "Ethical consumerism: Veganism," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 12(1), January.

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