Evaluating climate justice – attitudes and opinions of individual stakeholders in the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties

Hurlbert, Margot

doi:10.1080/1943815x.2011.599812

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“…Procedural justice refers to participation and engagement in decision making. Distributive or distributional justice focuses on the distribution of or access to impacts/burdens and resources/responses across groups (Hurlbert 2011 ). Climate justice can also include recognitional justice, understanding, and fairly representing difference in culture and perspectives (Martin et al 2016 )—and intergenerational justice—ensuring the protection of nature for and limiting risk pushed on future generations (Newell et al 2021 ).…”

Section: Higher Education and Climate Justicementioning

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Climate justice in higher education: a proposed paradigm shift towards a transformative role for colleges and universities

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Moving beyond technocratic approaches to climate action, climate justice articulates a paradigm shift in how organizations think about their response to the climate crisis. This paper makes a conceptual contribution by exploring the potential of this paradigm shift in higher education. Through a commitment to advancing transformative climate justice, colleges and universities around the world could realign and redefine their priorities in teaching, research, and community engagement to shape a more just, stable, and healthy future. As inequitable climate vulnerabilities increase, higher education has multiple emerging opportunities to resist, reverse, and repair climate injustices and related socioeconomic and health disparities. Rather than continuing to perpetuate the concentration of wealth and power by promoting climate isolationism’s narrow focus on technological innovation and by prioritizing the financial success of alumni and the institution, colleges and universities have an opportunity to leverage their unique role as powerful anchor institutions to demonstrate climate justice innovations and catalyze social change toward a more equitable, renewable-based future. This paper explores how higher education can advance societal transformation toward climate justice, by teaching climate engagement, supporting impactful justice-centered research, embracing non-extractive hiring and purchasing practices, and integrating community-engaged climate justice innovations across campus operations. Two climate justice frameworks, Green New Deal-type policies and energy democracy, provide structure for reviewing a breadth of proposed transformational climate justice initiatives in higher education.

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Section: Higher Education and Climate Justicementioning

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“…Hence, the inclusion and exclusion at Side Events can also shed light on who is more likely to signal their legitimation for the UNFCCC. The empirical literature has, by and large, used opinions from constituencies to assess sociological legitimacy (e.g., Hurlbert, 2011; Nasiritousi et al, 2016). While directly asking about legitimacy belief is straightforward, the answers can be biased depending on how the respondent is situated and impacted by the survey or interview questions.…”

Section: Nsa Deliberation and Legitimacy Of The Unfcccmentioning

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Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Zhao

2023

Env Pol Gov

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Non‐state actors (NSAs) have been widely recognized as important participants in the global climate regime. Their participation is considered to have the potential to enhance the democratic legitimacy of global governance institutions such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). What is the mechanism through which NSAs grant legitimacy to the institution? This study connects NSA legitimation with their deliberation at multilateral venues. I argue that, while NSAs do not have formal voting or decision‐making power, evaluating their participation in deliberation activities, such as the Side Events at the annual Conference of Parties, can shed light on our understanding of whether there is equality in their participation and who gets to contribute to the institutional legitimacy of the UNFCCC. Drawing on the example of women's groups at the UNFCCC, I demonstrate their increasing participation in deliberation. Quantitative analysis and interviews suggest that their participation is relatively inclusive with a diverse range of actors and viewpoints. Although Global Northern NSAs enjoy some advantages in participation, the effect is balanced by NSAs' social embeddedness, especially for the Southern groups, and the robust collaborations between the North and South. These features are likely to enhance the legitimacy of UNFCCC. Future research should consider how to understand and assess legitimacy in global governance regimes and who may be left out in the legitimation process.

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“…Several studies on NSA participation include articulations of justice made by youth in the UNFCCC without acknowledging that youth are of unique interest. Hurlbert (2011) assumes that a claim made by young NSAs from the Seychelles indicates the perspective of the Seychelles government; (Derman, 2014) refers to a public letter from a Canadian youth delegation as an example of general NSA perspectives; and in their study of indigenous participants Belfer et al (2017) share perceptions of tokenism as articulated by a young indigenous person, highlighting the need to explore the intersection of age and indigeneity though their focus remains firmly on the indigenous constituency. This demonstrates that youth are articulating justice claims in the UNFCCC, though whether they share their true preferences or are adapting their claims as a result of power dynamics within the negotiations remains unknown.…”

Section: Nsa Participation and Justice Claims In The Unfcccmentioning

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“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations

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Middlemiss

Paavola

2020

Global Environmental Change

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Youth articulations of climate change injustice are experiencing an unprecedented moment in the spotlight as, inspired by Greta Thunberg, young people around the world take to the streets demanding justice for their generation in the face of climate emergency. Formal opportunities for youth voices to be heard in environmental governance are slim, although the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) offers a rare opportunity for youth to share their perspectives as one of nine civil society constituencies: YOUNGO. Recent research in Global Environmental Change has called for empirical exploration of justice claims-making by different stakeholders to develop understanding of how justice is conceptualised and negotiated in climate change governance spaces. To date, climate justice claims from youth have not been explored in the academic literature. This paper draws upon rich, ethnographic, longitudinal data on the evolution of justice claims made by a group of youth participants in the UNFCCC to contribute to this empirical gap. In our research, a UK-based case study organisation and long-established member of YOUNGO was studied between 2015 and 2018, including observation of their participation at the 21 st , 22 nd and 23 rd Conferences of the Parties. We find that youth participants first articulated injustices based on perceived future risks to their generation but, over time, switched to solidarity claims about injustices experienced by other groups in the present. Whilst laudable, this impedes their mandate as representatives of younger generations. We also make three theoretical contributions to environmental justice theory. First we expand participation justice theory to both the visible structures of participation (procedural justice) and the informal rules and discourses shaping participation (representation justice). Second we demonstrate the importance of both external and self-recognition for the articulation of justice claims. Third we clarify the relationship between power and justice claim-making, proposing that we must look beneath what is articulated to shed light on the exercise of ideological power that shapes the framing and claiming of justice in environmental governance spaces.

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Evaluating climate justice – attitudes and opinions of individual stakeholders in the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Climate justice in higher education: a proposed paradigm shift towards a transformative role for colleges and universities

Climate justice in higher education: a proposed paradigm shift towards a transformative role for colleges and universities

Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations

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