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A Survey of Global Climate Justice: From Negotiation Stances to Moral Stakes and Back

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  • Pottier, Antonin
  • Mejean, Aurelie
  • Godard, Olivier
  • Hourcade, Jean-Charles

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Climate change poses immense problems of intergenerational, intragenerational and international justice. This critical survey describes the intellectual landscape of global climate justice, and clarifies the challenges, positions, arguments and theoretical background of this concept. To do so, we review how equity is mobilised in the climate change economics literature and confront arguments about justice used within or at the periphery of climate negotiations with those of moral and political philosophers. We present the stances of States, NGOs and experts. We discuss the principles of justice underpinning the fair sharing of a carbon budget and their moral justifications. We examine the concepts of climate damage and of responsibility and highlight the hurdles to make way for historical emissions in climate justice. We conclude on some implications of the Paris Agreement for climate justice and the way forward.

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  • Pottier, Antonin & Mejean, Aurelie & Godard, Olivier & Hourcade, Jean-Charles, 2017. "A Survey of Global Climate Justice: From Negotiation Stances to Moral Stakes and Back," International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, now publishers, vol. 11(1), pages 1-53, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jirere:101.00000090
    DOI: 10.1561/101.00000090
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    1. Céline Guivarch & Nicolas Taconet, 2020. "Inégalités mondiales et changement climatique," Revue de l'OFCE, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 0(1), pages 35-70.
    2. Lea S. Svenningsen, 2019. "Social preferences for distributive outcomes of climate policy," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 157(2), pages 319-336, November.
    3. Roolfs, Christina & Gaitan, Beatriz & Edenhofer, Ottmar, 2021. "Make or brake — Rich states in voluntary federal emission pricing," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).

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    Keywords

    Climate change; Climate justice; Equity; Emission budget; Mitigation; Historical responsibility; Burden sharing; Commons; Ethics; Climate negotiations;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
    • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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