Climate Justice and the Global Development Crisis

Abstract

The wellbeing of all life on our planet is under major threat and poses serious challenges for political systems and the geopolitical context at a global level. Climate change disrupts the social-ecological systems in which human communities are embedded and on which they are dependent, and challenges human communities’ social, economic, and political capacities and resources to cope with environmental change. Climate change introduces challenges to inherited concepts and norms, models and methods, and strategies of development, at least as historically conceived. The climate situation is a development crisis. Moreover, addressing climate justice requires drastic changes in national and global policies; and, thus, reimagined, transformative development pathways or systems. Indeed, climate change poses challenges to/for the very idea of development.