Climate justice and global politics
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Climate justice and global politics. / Jacobsen, Stefan Gaarsmand; Hunt, Oliver Bugge.
Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics. ed. / Luigi Pellizzoni; Emanuele Leonardi; Viviana Asara. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. p. 192–205.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Climate justice and global politics
AU - Jacobsen, Stefan Gaarsmand
AU - Hunt, Oliver Bugge
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Climate change poses a series of challenges to existing perceptions of what constitutes justice in global politics. In response to increasing environmental destruction in poor countries, climate justice-based arguments on how to responsibilize the largest carbon emitters have developed parallelly in academia and in activist circles. This chapter documents key differences between the demands of climate justice as they have developed in ethics, political theory and in international climate movements respectively. Despite these differences, both the theoretical and the activist conception of climate justice are challenged by the renewed sense of urgency as GHG emissions have not begun to drop significantly. New groups of activists translate the concept of climate emergency from the biophysical indicators to a political demand with a short deadline. We argue that both the ethical research agenda and the activists' demands for climate justice have gone through a period of renegotiation as a consequence of the confrontation with developments in global policymaking. This has both resulted in pressure to water down basic principles of climate justice and to alter the focus from transnational networks of solidarity to rapid state-driven decarbonization.
AB - Climate change poses a series of challenges to existing perceptions of what constitutes justice in global politics. In response to increasing environmental destruction in poor countries, climate justice-based arguments on how to responsibilize the largest carbon emitters have developed parallelly in academia and in activist circles. This chapter documents key differences between the demands of climate justice as they have developed in ethics, political theory and in international climate movements respectively. Despite these differences, both the theoretical and the activist conception of climate justice are challenged by the renewed sense of urgency as GHG emissions have not begun to drop significantly. New groups of activists translate the concept of climate emergency from the biophysical indicators to a political demand with a short deadline. We argue that both the ethical research agenda and the activists' demands for climate justice have gone through a period of renegotiation as a consequence of the confrontation with developments in global policymaking. This has both resulted in pressure to water down basic principles of climate justice and to alter the focus from transnational networks of solidarity to rapid state-driven decarbonization.
U2 - 10.4337/9781839100673.00021
DO - 10.4337/9781839100673.00021
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781839100666
SP - 192
EP - 205
BT - Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics
A2 - Pellizzoni, Luigi
A2 - Leonardi, Emanuele
A2 - Asara, Viviana
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
ER -
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