Libertarianism and Climate Ethics
By applying a Lockean theory of just appropriation, libertarianism allows for climate action by showing that the excessive use of the atmosphere is unjust.
Legitimate Expectations about Stranded Fossil Fuel Reserves: Towards a Just Transition
The energy transition is one of the most important challenges humanity has ever faced. However, like many other transitions, it brings adverse consequences for some agents.
Beyond Rawls: The Principle of Transgenerational Equity
Climate change imposes a reflection on the importance of time in justice issues and underlines how transgenerationality is a crucial matter for justice.
Let’s Be Rational: A ‘Fair Share’ Approach to Carbon Emissions
Emissions can be seen as a scarce communal resource, that, like other scarce resources such as a food, water or medical supplies, needs to be rationed.
Has Climate Change Ended Nature?
Considering humans as separate from the rest of nature risks an incomplete view of the current functioning of the biosphere and the misrepresentation of the human role.
From Food to Climate Justice: How Motivational Barriers Impact Distributive Justice Strategies for Change
Local food movements have leveraged normative arguments to motivate individual and collective action.
Gender and Climate Change
Gender discrimination hinders considerably a person’s access to the means and resources they need to face and minimise the effects of climate change on a global level.
From Rio to Paris: International Climate Change Treaties Between Consensus and Efficacy
At the moment, we are far from reaching a satisfactory goal in combatting climate change, notwithstanding the years of negotiations.
Climate Justice in the Global South: Understanding the Environmental Legacy of Colonialism
The global north has imposed on the global south a development model based on the unconditional exploitation of nature and human beings.
Climate Change: Scientific Evidence and Projected Warming
Greenhouse gas emissions must be cut dramatically by about 5–8% every year if we want to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040–2050.
