Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: A Primer for Policy Makers and NGOs

This very interesting book by Barbara Adams and Gretchen Luchsinger (freely downloadable!), is designed to promote the most crucial ideas of all, those which develop the notion of a shared climate development agenda in which climate protection and just development go hand in hand.  Note also the related articles and volumes in the right column.

Chapter 3, Towards a Climate Justice Agenda is where the Greenhouse Development Rights framework is discussed, under a subhead which  is notable in its even handedness:

“Call  on  both  industrialized  and  developing  countries  to  set  climate  and  development  targets.  Both  climate  change  and  development  have  to  be  viewed  from  a  global  framework  under  which  appropriate,  equitable  and  sustainable balances can be struck. Targets should be part of national planning  and set in agreement with informed citizens about the kind of world people want  to share. They should reflect the notions of historical responsibility and common but differentiated responsibilities, as well as variations in development contexts.  The Greenhouse Development Rights framework, which integrates responsibility and capability indicators, is one model that could be applied to defining emissions targets.”

Who could disagree?