Contours of Climate Justice
Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics
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
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
About the authors
Edgardo Lander
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
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."
Recent publications from Environmental Justice
A Landmark Victory for Justice: Biowatch’s Battle with the South African State and MonsantoPublished by Biowatch South Africa, this is a book about access to information, the right to know, and action in the public’s interest – a must-read for anyone campaigning for environmental or social justice. |
Protecting carbon to destroy forestsThis paper provides historical background and reports of experiences on the ground to show how land and nature enclosures are central to REDD+, and why it therefore cannot be fixed. |
Myth Busting: EU's Emissions Trading SystemSince the adoption of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), emissions have risen and the price of consumer energy went up along with the profits of many industrial actors. |
Accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunderThe EU aspires to global leadership in developing ‘sustainable biofuels’, arguing they can substitute for fossil fuels, but the result has been dispossession of rural communities throughout the South. |
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