Climate change is real, relentless, and transforming our world. The accelerating and deepening impacts of climate change will not be borne equally or fairly, with poor developing countries who have contributed little to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions bearing the brunt of global climate change. The lack of bargaining power in international negotiations by developing countries has enabled developed countries to determine not only the amount of their climate finance contributions, but to frame climate finance not as compensation for historical emissions, which would establish responsibility and imply liability, but as a gesture of goodwill rather than as an obligation. Developing countries are facing a bleak future if current GHG emission trends continue. Without recognition of climate justice as an underlying principle for access to financial and technological resources, millions of the most vulnerable will be at climate risk with limited opportunities to build adaptive capacity and strengthen resilience.
Warner, K
Climate Justice: Who bears the burden and pays the price?
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