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Caney, Simon (2022) Global climate governance, short-termism, and the vulnerability of future generations. Ethics & International Affairs, 137 (155). pp. 137-155. doi:10.1017/S0892679422000181 ISSN 0892-6794.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679422000181
Abstract
Many societies are now having to live with the impacts of climate change and are being confronted with heat waves, wildfires, droughts, and rising sea levels. Without radical action, future generations will inherit an even more degraded planet. This raises the question: How can political institutions be reformed to promote justice for future generations and to leave them an ecologically sustainable world? In this essay, I address a particular version of this question; namely: How can supra–state institutions and transnational political processes be transformed to realize climate justice for future generations? The essay seeks to make two contributions. First, it considers what criteria should guide the evaluation of proposals for reform. It proposes four criteria, and analyzes how they should be interpreted and applied. Second, it considers a raft of different proposals, commenting on their strengths and weaknesses. It presents ten proposals in all, including, among others, establishing a UN high commissioner for future generations, appointing a UN special envoy for future generations, creating a UN agency mandated to protect future generations, instituting representatives for the future in all key UN bodies, ensuring greater youth participation in transnational political decision-making processes, and further developing a global citizens’ assembly. In short, my aim is to outline some of the options available and to defend a normative framework that we can use to evaluate them.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Economic aspects, Climatic changes -- International cooperation, Environmental justice, Climatic changes -- Social aspects, Intergenerational relations, Global environmental change, Environmental management | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ethics & International Affairs | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0892-6794 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 137 | ||||||||
| Number: | 155 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 137-155 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0892679422000181 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Ethics & International Affairs https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ethics-and-international-affairs | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 February 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 February 2022 | ||||||||
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