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Christian Au Munich School of Philosophy, Center of Social and Development Studies

Climate Change and Justice Climate policy as a component of fair globalisation and sustainable poverty reduction. Christian Au Munich School of Philosophy, Center of Social and Development Studies. The Project and its Partners. www.climate-and-justice.de Project partners www.pik-potsdam.de

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Christian Au Munich School of Philosophy, Center of Social and Development Studies

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  1. Climate Change and JusticeClimate policy as a component of fair globalisation and sustainable poverty reduction Christian Au Munich School of Philosophy, Center of Social and Development Studies

  2. The Project and its Partners www.climate-and-justice.de Project partners www.pik-potsdam.de www.hfph.mwn.de/igp www.misereor.de www.munichre-foundation.org

  3. The Global Contract on Climate Change mitigation and poverty reduction in a nutshell Overall Objectives • Develop an integrated approach to fight climate change and poverty • Create broad process of dialogue in (german) public Interdisciplinary analyses and reflections • Interaction between strategies to reduce emissions and strategies to combat global poverty; • Climatic impacts for poor people in developing countries and key problem areas • Ethical groundrules for an integrated approach to mitigation, adaptation and development strategies

  4. How to specify justice in the context of Climate Change • What can be a common moral starting point to reconcile competing and conflicting demands and interests? • What kind of normative implications has such a moral starting point and what concept of justice can be derived from this normative imlications? • How translates this concept of justice to operatioal ethical criteria to resolve conflicts with respect to climate change?

  5. Moral starting point:Fundamental aspects of ethical reflection Climate Change as a unique case of injustice • involving a complex intersection of global and intergenerational justice Human Rights as Moral point of view • Civil and PoliticalRights • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights • Right to Development

  6. A Concept of Justice based on Human Rights Human Rights Universal Human Rights Inter-generational equal rights Justice as Equal Opportunities Justice as Basic Need Fulfilment Procedural Justice IGP 2008

  7. Five Pillars of a Global Contract on Climate Change mitigation and poverty reduction

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