Authors
James J Patterson, Thomas Thaler, Matthew Hoffmann, Sara Hughes, Angela Oels, Eric Chu, Aysem Mert, Dave Huitema, Sarah Burch, Andy Jordan
Publication date
2018/4/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
31
Pages
1-9
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Constraining climate change to 1.5 C requires urgent decarbonization.
- Questions arise about the political feasibility of such transformations.
- Social justice is an orienting principle for effective and ethical transformations.
- However, emphasis on justice could also have unintended consequences.
- Proactive attention to social justice is crucial to navigate 1.5 C transformations.
Constraining global climate change to 1.5 C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5 C transformations. A social justice lens usefully focuses attention on first, protecting vulnerable people from climate change impacts, second, protecting …
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