Global Peace Consequences of Climate Change Mitigation: Climate Justice as a prerequisite for Security

Strong empirical evidence emphasizes that consumption behaviours of a wealthy minority, most of them living in historically developed economies, bear the responsibility for the vast majority of anthropogenic HGH emissions fuelling climate change. AT the same time, inaddition to disproportionately affecting less economically developed countries, climate change mitigation policies may arguably further widen the Inequality gap, thus raising climate justice concerns…

Article published as part of a collaboration between the Climate Security & Peace Project (CS2P) of the NGO Climates and the Climate, Energy and Security Program of IRIS.