Short Abstract:

This panel looks at justice issues involved in the climate and ecological crisis and the global efforts to deal with them.

Long Abstract:

This panel looks at justice issues involved in the climate and ecological crisis and the global efforts to deal with them. The core of anthropogenic climate change remains the tension between uneven historic emissions generated primarily by industrialized Western nations and the disproportionate impacts experienced by the countries in the Global South. On the other hand, nearly three decades of global economic and socio-environmental responses to climate change have created new forms of socio-economic and environmental inequalities. Least-developed countries, Island nations, and countries in the Global South, particularly across Africa, Asia, and South America, as well as Indigenous populations and low-income, lower-class, and caste communities worldwide now face emerging forms of climate and environmental injustice. This panel asks what are the crises of justice involved in the climate and ecological crisis and efforts to deal with them. How are various justices being undermined in the actions and inactions related to climate and ecological crises? How does this crisis reinforce climate colonialism? How should these crises of justice need to be addressed in a polycrisis? We welcome papers that engage with this overarching theme, from a range of methodological approaches including but not limited to the following topics.

Climate and Green Colonialism, and Climate Justice

Energy Transitions and Justice in the Global South

UNFCCC Processes, Climate Policies and Environmental and Climate Justice

Indigenous People and Climate Justice

Carbon Trading, Carbon Markets and Justice

Climate Finance, Debt Traps and Justice

Emerging Technologies and Environmental and Climate Justice

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