Contours of Climate Justice: Ideas for Shaping New Climate and Energy Politics
“There is something uncanny about the politics of climate change. An issue at the same time old and new; omnipresent, yet easily forgotten; threatening the destruction of billions of lives, yet somehow relegated to a relatively obscure corner of the global political system, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a treaty organisation far less powerful than, say, the World Trade Organization (WTO).”
A collection of essays from a variety of authors working internationally that investigate and illuminate the climate crisis in three parts: first, the policies, actions, and mindsets that led to the crisis; second, the “wrong turns, dead-ends and cross-roads” offered by potential solutions and policies; and third, the landscape of the current climate justice movement as it fights towards a sustainable future.