Climate of Injustice Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy

Name: Climate of Injustice Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy
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ISBN: 9780262681612

ISBN-10: 0262681617

ISBN-13: 9780262681612

Edition: 2007

Authors: J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley Parks, Les Gasser, Nazli Choucri

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The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people, while powerful industrial nations, including the United States, refuse to curtail their own excesses unless developing countries make similar sacrifices. Meanwhile, although industrialized countries are responsible for 60 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, developing countries suffer the "worst and first" effects of climate-related disasters,…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Wet Feet Marching



A Model of North-South (Non-)Cooperation



Not the Day after Tomorrow: Learning from Recent Climate Disasters



An Analysis of Cross-National Patterns of Risk



Fueling Injustice: Emissions, Development Paths, and Responsibility



Who Is Taking Action?



Equity, Climate Proposals, and Two Roads to Justice after Kyoto


Appendices


Notes


References


Index