Subsistence Emissions and Climate Justice

Justice and Climate Change

Climate change raises complex issues of science, economics, and politics; it also raises difficult issues of justice. Poor nations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, in part because they are poor. Wealthy nations have less at risk, in part because they are wealthy. It is both tempting and plausible to suggest that for either emissions reductions or adaptation, wealthy nations owe...

Climate Justice

Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice

In this paper I make the following claims. In order to see anthropogenic climate change as clearly involving moral wrongs and global injustices, we will have to revise some central concepts in these domains. Moreover, climate change threatens another value ("respect for nature") that cannot easily be taken up by concerns of global justice or moral responsibility.

The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence agriculture.

Some of the most important impacts of global climate change will be felt among the populations, predominantly in developing countries, referred to as "subsistence" or "smallholder" farmers. Their vulnerability to climate change comes both from being predominantly located in the tropics, and from various socioeconomic, demographic, and policy trends limiting their capacity to adapt to change. Ho...

No Justice in Climate Policy ?

arguments about morality, justice, and economic inequality that he offers in support of his proposal for a WCB together with a price on carbon. I then address objections to Broome's position, rebut some of them, and contrast his position to that of P&W. (C) Broome Like P&W, Broome takes as his starting point the fact that the climate treaty negotiation participants who have the most power are u...