The Global Climate Regime and Transitional Justice

Klinsky, Sonja; Brankovic, Jasmina

doi:10.4324/9781315228037

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“…More generally, Laplante's work in Peru notes that environmental pollution can fuel socio-economic grievances in transitional societies; 92 Duthie argues that reparations could address environmental harms; 93 Humphries explores the impact of climate change on human rights protection; 94 and Klinsky and Brankovic use transitional justice 'as a lens that allows us to see climate conflicts in a new way and identify options for moving forward that might otherwise be left unexplored'. 95 This article adds a new dimension to this body of work. If, as this section has demonstrated, there is limited acknowledgement of ecological connectivity within the fields of international law and transitional justice, the final section seeks to address this through a novel conceptual reframing of war crimes and human rights violations that centralizes the idea of ecological connectivity.…”

Section: Ecological Concerns In International Law and Transitional Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ecological Connectivity

Clark¹

2020

Journal of International Criminal Justice

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected multiple aspects of our lives. This interdisciplinary article reflects on the significance of the pandemic from a largely unexplored angle, through a focus on the key concept of ecological connectivity, which broadly refers to the inter-connections between different elements of an ecosystem. Examining the pandemic through the lens of ecological connectivity, the article also theorizes it (and zoonotic diseases more generally) as a violation of this connectivity. It uses this idea as a core thread for linking COVID-19, international criminal law and transitional justice. Its key argument in this regard is that war crimes and human rights violations can themselves be viewed, in part, as violations of ecological connectivity. This theorization, in turn, provides a novel basis for thinking about the wider ecological dimensions and legacies of war crimes and gross violations of human rights, and, by extension, the potential role of international criminal law and transitional justice in helping to restore damaged connectivities through a relational approach to justice.

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Section: Ecological Concerns In International Law and Transitional Justicementioning

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ecological Connectivity

Clark¹

2020

Journal of International Criminal Justice

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“…The Cuban socialist state relies on local forms of governance and the work of communities for guaranteeing the success of not only its disaster risk management strategy, but also its sustainable development initiatives in other interrelated fields, such as health, agriculture, eco-tourism and conservation (Bretos et al, 2017;Clouse, 2014;Winson, A., 2006). Cuba's community-based decolonising perspective on disaster risk reduction, and its leading role in South-South cooperation and triangulation with the UNDP, is aligned with the necessary economic reparations, cultural recognition and collective participatory action necessary to counteract the impact of centuries of environmental injustice in the Caribbean, now accelerated by climate change (Jafry, 2018;Klinsky and Brankovic, 2018). Similarly, the successful transfer of the Cuban risk reduction model to other countries through the Caribbean Risk Management Initiative corroborates the UNDP's acknowledgement that "while the countries of the region are varied in terms of language, culture and political-economic organization, they are linked by geography, history and common development challenges, allowing them to benefit from each other's experiences" (UNDP, 2016a, p. 7).…”

Section: The Caribbean: a Case For Resilience And Climate Justicementioning

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Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean

Columbié

Morrissey

2020

Territory, Politics, Governance

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The UN's invocation of "human security" a generation ago promised a world increasingly governed by a "people-centred" security agenda (UNDP, 1994, p. iii). In this paper, we focus on arguably the most vital global security challenge faced throughout the planet today: climate resilience. We outline how advancing smart climate action and securing climate resilience can be aided by securitization practices that recall the earlier emphases of the UN's human security concept. The paper draws upon evidence from the Caribbean as a territory defined dominantly as part of the Global South yet offering vital knowledges of productive climate security governance that can be instructive to the Global North. The impacts of global warming are particularly evident for the people of Small Island Developing States such as those located in the Caribbean (IPCC, 2018). By analysing the case of Cuba as a country increasingly resilient to extreme weather events, and by interrogating the genealogy of the broader Caribbean's hurricane culture, we show how an effective human security vision for climate justice and resilience can be achieved by recognising and integrating the valuable forms of locally-attuned knowledge that continue to emerge and coalesce in vulnerable geographies.

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“…More focused climate research may help emerging scholars carve out a place in a crowded field while simultaneously enhancing its policy relevance. Klinsky also calls for research that is "non-naïve" to climate change as a politically contentious subject with a powerful cultural element and deep-seated concerns about inequality and injustice (Schlosberg 2007;Klinsky et al 2017;Klinsky and Brankovic 2018). Put simply, scholars can and should do more to engage with the darker side of climate politics in addition to more common analyses of various governance mechanisms.…”

Section: Climate Politicsmentioning

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Researching global environmental politics: trends, gaps, and emerging issues

Alger¹,

Dauvergne²

2018

A Research Agenda for Global Environmental Politics

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This book comes at a time of both promise and peril for the global environment. Environmental problems have never been more prominent on the agendas of states, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations. Each seems to recognize that they have a role to play in staving off ecological crisis, leading to a proliferation of private, public, and hybrid governance mechanisms. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, despite its flaws, for the first time committed all countries to setting targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. More and more multinational corporations are voluntarily pledging to pursue zero carbon emissions, zero waste, and fully sustainable supply chains. And increasing numbers of environmental activists are pushing for more ambitious protection of the oceans, forests, and biodiversity.

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The Global Climate Regime and Transitional Justice

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ecological Connectivity

Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean

Researching global environmental politics: trends, gaps, and emerging issues

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