Contours of Climate Justice - Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

The climate is changing in more ways than one. Not only has an increasing
concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere been wreaking
havoc in the global biosphere, but there has also been a significant shift
in the way the issue of climate change is debated. From being a marginal
‘green’ issue, it is now central to many a strategy for political and
economic renewal. It has become ever more obvious that the image of
climate change is not primarily the drowning polar bear, but the farmer
without crops, the migrant without a home, the worker with no future.
Yet international efforts to slow climate change have not advanced much
beyond square one. At the same time, a new global cycle of struggle seems
to be coalescing around the call for climate justice, in particular in the
mobilisation around the 15th international climate summit in Copenhagen.
This collection of interventions contributes to the re-conceptualisation
of climate change as an issue of justice, and therefore also of
struggle. It further seeks to strengthen a climate and energy
politics that will prove capable of solving the multiple crises that
climate change is part of, and which humanity is facing.
Critical Currents is an
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