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Bourban, Michel (2022) Promoting justice in global climate policies. In: Laurent, Eloi and Zwickl, Klara, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment. Routledge international handbooks . London: Routledge, pp. 226-242. ISBN 9780367814533
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367814533-19
Abstract
Global inequalities raised by climate change lead to multiple injustices. This chapter adopts a climate justice perspective to assess the degree of (un)fairness of current mitigation and adaptation policies and to propose institutional reforms that would make them fairer. The first section explains in what sense political economists and normative political theorists could join efforts to promote climate justice, despite the historic tensions between their two fields. The second section deals with mitigation policies and explains why current nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are unfair. It also proposes a roadmap for a just energy transition that would implement a price-signal approach complementing the pledge-and-review approach that dominates climate negotiations. The third section moves to adaptation policies and highlights that adaptation finance transfers to vulnerable countries are currently insufficient. It also supports the promotion of democratization processes in vulnerable societies to avoid a trade-off between two influential criteria guiding the allocation of adaptation finance: vulnerability and good governance. The conclusion sketches a research agenda for future interdisciplinary research on climate justice.
Item Type: | Book Item | |||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Climate change mitigation , Environmental protection , Environmental justice , Climatic changes, Carbon offsetting, Emissions trading | |||||||||
Series Name: | Routledge international handbooks | |||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | |||||||||
Place of Publication: | London | |||||||||
ISBN: | 9780367814533 | |||||||||
Book Title: | The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment | |||||||||
Editor: | Laurent, Eloi and Zwickl, Klara | |||||||||
Official Date: | 28 October 2022 | |||||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 226-242 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.4324/9780367814533-19 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 October 2021 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 April 2023 | |||||||||
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