Climate Justice and Human Rights

Skillington, Tracey

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-02281-3

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“…In addition to data on adaptation finance expenditures, criteria are needed to better measure what adaptation finance is accomplishing, using qualitative as well as quantitative assessments. Moreover, the demands of transformational change in the rate of delivery of climate change relief requires that other public lenders accept that the provision of adaptation is increasingly considered within the purview of human rights and climate justice (see, for example, Skillington [34] and Toussaint and Martinez Blanco [35]).…”

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Climate Adaptation Finance in World Bank Economic Development Programs: The Challenges of Systemic Transformation via “Scaling Up”

2021

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Worldwide only about four percent of the estimated $500 billion-plus in public and private climate finance in 2017 was destined for adaptation. However, institutions like the World Bank are positioning themselves for a transformation in adaptation finance, seeking to provide substantially more adaptation finance as distinct from financial support for greenhouse gas mitigation. This article explores the recent emergence of adaptation as a higher priority and how a longer-term time horizon is necessary if a transformation in climate change governance is to occur which places greater emphasis on sustainable development goals relating to improvement of circumstances of citizens in the most climate-vulnerable nations, mostly in the Global South. The article also considers the important debate in the climate change policy literature over the extent to which funds supporting adaptation are going to lower-income nations or people, as might be anticipated given the view that the poor are more vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Data linking World Bank project funding to climate change adaptation and mitigation, derived from a keyword-matching approach, show that from 2010 to 2018, the share of climate-change-related finance devoted to adaptation in World Bank projects increased considerably. The data indicate that adaptation funding tends to be directed more to more climate-vulnerable nations and those with greater state fragility, but not to low-income countries versus high-income countries. Implications are considered for how this change might be “scaled up” to achieve a transformational status.

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Climate Adaptation Finance in World Bank Economic Development Programs: The Challenges of Systemic Transformation via “Scaling Up”

2021

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“…A minimal, transnationally relevant political respect for nature, however, requires further imaginative initiatives, as well as a strong commitment on the part of all to their realization. The addition of a transnational order of political representation is essential to address what are increasingly interrelated problems (spanning peoples, regions, generations and species) (Skillington 2017(Skillington , 2019. A central motivation for embracing new initiatives at this level is the need to act to address expanding threats to the safety of all.…”

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Democracy, Biodiversity and More than Human Justice Imperatives: Institutional Responses to Crisis

Skillington

2020

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In terms of a human responsibility for the wrongful expulsion of non-human nature from natural habitats through wildfires, global warming, the over-exploitation of lands, seas and biological life, humanity is forced to revisit some fundamental issues of late with regard to the ongoing legitimacy of its claims to the Earth’s resources. Can human communities continue to lay claim to remaining essential reserves with little regard for the life situation of non-human others? Should certain principles of distributive and territorial justice, claims of occupancy, freedom of movement, respect, etc., be extended to include non-human nature? In recent months, Europe has begun to explore many of these concerns, noting the trauma experiences of COVID-19 and their interconnection with deepening ecological and health problems as a stimulus to action. This paper notes the relevance of these crisis experiences in moving political debate on the loss of biological diversity forward, prompting a need to extend normative horizons of the common good to include more biologically diverse communities.

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“…There is also the question of what obligations, if any, are owed by the current generation to future generations. It has been persuasively argued that any consideration of how we deal with climate change today should take into account the (perceived) interests of those that will follow us tomorrow (Skillington, 2017, pp. 238–243).…”

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Locating a Course on Environmental Justice in Theories of Environmental Education and Global Citizenship

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Carvalho

2020

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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Environmental education is an increasingly important concern for policymakers and universities, as it is critical to the success of the broader agenda represented by the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Achieving this within the higher education sector has proven difficult, however. This article examines how an interdisciplinary, extra-curricular course on the justice implications of climate change, delivered as part of University College London’s Global Citizenship Programme, combined a range of practical and theoretical methodologies to deliver environmental education and the related concept of education for global citizenship. Evidence indicates that courses such as this could be a powerful means of overcoming the shortcomings in mainstream higher education and equipping students with the skills necessary for them to assist society, at global, national and subnational levels, in transitioning towards more sustainable behaviours.

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Climate Justice and Human Rights

Cited by 26 publications

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Climate Adaptation Finance in World Bank Economic Development Programs: The Challenges of Systemic Transformation via “Scaling Up”

Climate Adaptation Finance in World Bank Economic Development Programs: The Challenges of Systemic Transformation via “Scaling Up”

Democracy, Biodiversity and More than Human Justice Imperatives: Institutional Responses to Crisis

Locating a Course on Environmental Justice in Theories of Environmental Education and Global Citizenship

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