Read more
This book investigates the relationship between non-state actors and climate justice from a philosophical perspective.
The climate justice literature remains largely focused upon the rights and duties of states. Yet, for decades, states have failed to take adequate steps to address climate change. This has led some to suggest that, if severe climate change and its attendant harms are to be avoided, non-state actors are going to have to step into the breach. This collection represents the first attempt to systematically examine the climate duties of the most significant non-state actors - corporations, sub-national political communities, and individuals.
Targeted at academic philosophers working on climate justice, this collection will also be of great interest to students and scholars of global justice, applied ethics, political philosophy and environmental humanities.
List of contents
Introduction Lachlan Umbers (UWA) and Jeremy Moss (UNSW) Chapter 1: Levels of Climate Action Garrett Cullity (Adelaide) Chapter 2: Sub-National Climate Duties: Addressing Three Challenges Lachlan Umbers (UWA) Chapter 3: Carbon Majors and Corporate Responsibility for Climate Change Jeremy Moss (UNSW) Chapter 4: Sectoral responsibility for climate justice: is aviation exceptionalism defensible? Elisabeth Ellis (Otago) Chapter 5: Corporations’ Duties in a Changing Climate Stephanie Collins (ACU) Chapter 6: Individual Climate Justice Duties: The Cooperative Promotional Model & Its Challenges Elizabeth Cripps (Edinburgh) Chapter 7: Are We Morally Required to Reduce Our Carbon Footprint Independently of What Others Do? Susanne Burri (LSE) Chapter 8: Right-Leveling Indeterminacy: Environmental Problems, Non-State Actors, and the Global Economic Market Benjamin Hale (UC-Boulder) Index
Summary
This book investigates the relationship between non-state actors and climate justice from a philosophical perspective. Targeted at academic philosophers working on climate justice, this collection will also be of great interest to students and scholars of global justice, applied ethics, political philosophy and environmental humanities.
