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Climate Justice

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Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Climate change justice

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Climate justice is at once (i) a particular field within environmental justice (Walker 2012; Sze 2018), (ii) a discourse on fair distribution of (interrelated and interdependent) benefits, responsibility, obligations, and harm, and finally (iii) a social movement. It can also be known as climate change justice (Moellendorf 2015), for the issue arises due to the consequences of climate change. Given the global impact of climate change, which is impacting if not threatening all regions of the planet generally, but with severe local differences in its effects, it can be argued that it is one of the most pressing issues in environmental justice but also one of the reasons why and how it differs from other issues of environmental justice. The two main strategies for dealing with climate change, adaptation (i.e., finding ways of coping with the no longer avoidable impact of climate change) or mitigation(the reduction of climate change-inducing...

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  1. Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) & Center for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), University of Warwick (UK), Coventry, UK

    Alexander I. Stingl

  2. Global Legal Studies Network (GLSN), Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris, France

    Alexander I. Stingl

  3. Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT), Paris, France

    Alexander I. Stingl

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Tehmina Khan

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Stingl, A.I. (2020). Climate Justice. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71066-2_46-1

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