Global Climate Justice in the Context of Global Climate Governance:Principles,Controversies and Prospects
Global climate justice is a fundamental principle used to distribute the benefits and burdens associated with global climate governance.In the practice of global climate negotiations,negotiators of sovereign state mainly resort to grandfather principle,utilitarianism principle,egalitarianism principle and historical responsibility principle to distribute the benefits and burdens related to global climate governance.At the global level,however,there is often disagreement and debate about the practical implications of these four principles and their weight in the overall climate justice normative system.This divergence of ideas and principles is one of the reasons why international climate negotiations and global climate governance are so difficult.The complete climate justice is a normative system composed of various substantive principles of justice,and its core value is fairness and impartiality.The ideal conception of global climate justice is a compound justice based on Rawls'justice theory,which is mainly composed of the equality principle and the corresponding combination of other principles.From a long-term perspective,the prerequisite for getting out of the"global prisoner's dilemma"of global climate governance and ensuring the realization of global climate justice is to further transform sovereign states,to improve and strengthen the UN system,and to cultivate new type of citizen who are committed to the common values of all mankind and the moral sense of common destiny of all humans.