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Impact of Climate Change, Intergenerational Justice, and Human Rights on SDGs

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Reduced Inequalities

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Climate change justice; Intergenerational justice

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Global climate change is one of the most alarming ethical and political challenges confronting the world in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and transnational ethical issues raised by climate change have been the focus of a significant body of scholarship, including climate justice (Caney 2014; Gardiner 2006; Gosseries and Meyer 2009; Moellendorf 2011; Shue 2007). The literal, etymological sense of the word justice is associated with the morally appropriate and, in particular, treatment of persons, groups, and classes. Intergenerational justice extends this definition intertemporally and transgenerational.

A number of different approaches to the problem of intergenerational justice have been proposed. It is common to adopt a sufficientarian position, which is a theory of distributive justice. Rather than being involved with inequalities by making the situation of the least well off as good as...

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    David Mathias Paaske

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

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Paaske, D.M. (2021). Impact of Climate Change, Intergenerational Justice, and Human Rights on SDGs. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Reduced Inequalities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71060-0_109-1

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