Contours of Climate Justice

Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics

Edgardo Lander

Walden Bello

Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Tadzio Mueller

November 2009

This publication aims to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the emerging climate justice movement and to create resonances between different perspectives and spheres of engagement. The activities around the COP 15 in Copenhagen are a starting point in the creation of such a broad movement

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Contents

Preface

Introduction:

Radical climate change politics in Copenhagen and beyond: From criticism to action?
Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Edgardo Lander and Tadzio Mueller

Part 1: How did we get here in the first place?

A feminist critique of the climate change discourse. From biopolitics to necropolitics?
Ewa Charkiewicz
Kyoto ́s ‘flexible mechanisms’ and the right to pollute the air
Achim Brunnengräber

Climate change and capitalism’s ecological fi x in Latin America
Eduardo Gudynas

The deadly triad: Climate change, free trade and capitalism
Walden Bello

Part 2 : Wrong turns, dead-ends and cross-roads

REDD realities
Simone Lovera

Green capitalism and the climate: It’s economic growth, stupid!
Tadzio Mueller and Alexis Passadakis

Fixing the world’s climate ‘foodprint’
Anne Laure Constantin

The right to the city – energy and climate change
Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin

Part 3 : Mapping (and walking) the terrain of climate justice

Climate justice in the US
Gopal Dayaneni

Climate change and human rights
Wolfgang Sachs

Energy, crisis and world-wide production relations
Kolya Abramsky

Degrowth, or deconstruction of the economy: Towards a sustainable world
Enrique Leff

The rights of nature, new forms of citizenship and the Good Life

– Echoes of the Constitución de Montecristi in Ecuador
Alberto Acosta

Pages:

112pages

Publisher:

Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

Series:

Critical Currents

ISBN:

1654-4250

Edgardo Lander

Professor of Social Sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas.

Lander is one of the leading thinkers and writers on the left in Venezuela, both supportive and constructively critical of the Venezuelan revolution under Chavez. He is actively involved in social movements in the Americas that defeated the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).

He is a member of the Latin American Social Science Council’s (CLACSO) research group on Hegemonies and Emancipations and on the editorial board of the academic journal Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales. He is currently
part of the steering committee of the Hemispheric Council of the Social
Forum of the Americas.

Among other publications, Lander has written and edited: Contribución a la crítica del marxismo realmente existente: Verdad, ciencia y tecnología; La ciencia y la tecnología como asuntos políticos; Límites de la democracia en la sociedad tecnológica; Neoliberalismo, sociedad civil y democracia.

Walden Bello

Senior analyst at Philippine think-tank Focus on the Global South, TNI fellow and Akbayan representative in the Filipino Congress.

Author of more than 14 books, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for "... outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalisation, and how alternatives to it can be implemented." Bello has been described by the Economist as the man “who popularised a new term: deglobalisation.”

Bello predicted the financial crisis several years prior to the current meltdown and is a globally respected figure within the alternative globalisation movement. Canadian author Naomi Klein called him the "world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary."

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