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Moral Foundations for Global Environmental and Climate Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2011

Chukwumerije Okereke
Chukwumerije Okereke
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Smith School, Oxford
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Aspirations for global justice have, in the last two decades, found their most radical expressions in the context of global environmental governance and climate change. From Rio de Janeiro through Kyoto to Copenhagen, demands for international distributional justice, and especially North–South equity, have become a prominent aspect of international environmental negotiation. However, claims for international environmental and climate justice have generally been deployed in the form of instinctive gut reaction than as a closely argued concept. In this paper, I outline the ways in which issues of international justice intertwine with notions of global environmental sustainability and the basic premises on which claims for North–South equity are entrenched.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 69 , October 2011 , pp. 117 - 135
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2011

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