Climate Justice as the New Human Rights Diplomacy
Introduction For most of the twentieth century, climate change was treated as a problem for scientists and economists to solve. Governments negotiated emissions targets, debated carbon pricing, and argued over the cost of transitioning away from fossil fuels. The language was technocratic, and deliberately so — framing climate change as a technical challenge kept it at arm's length from messier questions about fairness, history, and who actually owes what to whom. That framing is no longer...
