Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy
Ravi Kanbur and Henry Shue
Abstract
Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals summit in September 2015, and the Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, brought climate justice center stage in global discussions. In the run up to Paris, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, instituted the Climate Justice Dia ... More
Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals summit in September 2015, and the Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, brought climate justice center stage in global discussions. In the run up to Paris, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, instituted the Climate Justice Dialogue. The editors of this volume, an economist and a philosopher, served on the High Level Advisory Committee of the Climate Justice Dialogue. They noted the overlap and mutual enforcement between the economic and philosophical discourses on climate justice. But they also noted the great need for these strands to come together to support the public and policy discourse. This volume is the result.
Keywords:
climate justice,
Paris Agreement,
integration of economics and philosophy,
justice between generations,
sustainable development goals
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198813248 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198813248.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Ravi Kanbur, editor
T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Henry Shue, editor
Senior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, and Merton College, University of Oxford, UK
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