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Climate Change Justice
Author(s) -
Moellendorf Darrel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12201
Subject(s) - climate change , climate justice , economic justice , poverty , political science , natural resource economics , investment (military) , food security , development economics , business , economics , environmental planning , geography , ecology , law , agriculture , politics , biology
Anthropogenic climate change is a global process affecting the lives and well‐being of millions of people now and countless number of people in the future. For humans, the consequences may include significant threats to food security globally and regionally, increased risks of from food‐borne and water‐borne as well as vector‐borne diseases, increased displacement of people due migrations, increased risks of violent conflicts, slowed economic growth and poverty eradication, and the creation of new poverty traps. Principles of justice are statements of what persons are owed either by others or by institutions and policies. Climate change gives rise to many concern of justice. This article briefly summarizes some of the most important of these, including claims to have climate change mitigated, claims regarding the sharing of the costs of climate change mitigation, claims for investment into adaptation, and claims to be compensated.