Climate Justice and the Economy: Social Mobilization, Knowledge and the Political
In: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Climate Justice movement -- Chapter 1 Climate Justice as anti-corporate economic mobilization -- Introduction -- Climate Commons and climate markets -- Globalizing environmental justice -- Defining Climate Justice as a global radical strategy -- Climate Justice becomes activism and system critique -- Bringing the economy back to the roots -- Professionalization against CDM and re-radicalization -- Copenhagen COP: system change and anti-capitalism beyond Kyoto -- Mother Earth vs. capitalism -- Just Transition and divestment as de-radicalization -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Climate debt: The origins of a subversive misnomer -- Introduction -- Environmental justice and ecological debt -- Climate justice movement and climate debt -- Ecological debt claims -- Climate debt claims -- Comparing the two set of claims -- Final considerations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Natural capital, carbon trading and climate sanctions -- Introduction -- Natural capital accounting as an anti-extraction, climate debt measurement tool -- Carbon trading as a 'false solution' -- Climate sanctions as popular accountability strategy during global governance failure -- Conclusion: Reducing fossil fuel influence over climate politics -- References -- Part II Economic Climate Justice in practice -- Chapter 4 The indigenous climate justice of the Unist'ot'en resistance -- Introduction -- The legal approach -- Direct action -- Asserting sovereignty -- Reimagined free prior and informed consent -- The ecology of indigenous resistance -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5 Divestment as climate justice: Weighing the power of the fossil fuel divestment movement