Climate Justice Beyond the State (Routledge Env, Umbers, Moss Paperback..

Name: Climate Justice Beyond the State (Routledge Env, Umbers, Moss Paperback..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Virtually every figure in the climate justice literature agrees that states are presently failing to discharge their duties to take action on climate change. Few, however, have attempted to think through what follows from that fact from a moral point of view. In Climate Justice Beyond the State, Lachlan Umbers and Jeremy Moss argue that states\u2019 failures to take action on climate change have important implications for the duties of the most important actors states contain within them \u2013 sub-national political communities, corporations, and individuals \u2013 actors that have been largely neglected in the climate justice literature, to date. Sub-national political communities and corporations, they argue, have duties to immediately, aggressively, and unilaterally reduce their emissions. Individuals, on the other hand, have duties to help promote collective action on climate change. Along the way, they contribute to a range of important contemporary debates, including those ove.