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'For all its details, climate change is fundamentally a moral issue. Godard manages with elegance and sharp analysis to guide us through the big philosophical, economic and political questions. Catastrophe in slow-motion, many of us will never feel the consequences nor really know if what we did was right. The book concludes with a poignant image of our generation making promises to future generations like throwing bottles into the sea as messages to unknown recipients. Another image would be selflessly helping strangers - not in the expectation of reward but because it is right.' -- Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 'How to propose a theory of climate justice that takes seriously the need for States to voluntarily agree on a common climate regime? How to apply Boltanski and Thevenot's approach to justification to this issue? These are two of the many issues addressed in this book. It is the very personal outcome of decades of in-depth work devoted to bridging ideas from international relations, political philosophy, environmental economics and first-hand observations of climate negotiations. Timely and insightful!' -- Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain, Belgium

`Justice considerations lie at the heart of international discussions to deal with climate change. This timely book, by one of the best scholars and advisors on climate policy, provides a comprehensive, yet rigorously critical (with due emphasis on the peculiarities of the international sphere), account of existing demands on the matter, from intergenerational equity to equal rights for every human being to the historical responsibility of the North . It ends with a new framework, drawn from justification theory, for articulating concrete compromises out of rival viewpoints. A must-read for climate policy makers, advisors, analysts and scholars.' -- Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne, HEC Montreal, Canada For all its details, climate change is fundamentally a moral issue. Godard manages with elegance and sharp analysis to guide us through the big philosophical, economic and political questions.' -- Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden `How to propose a theory of climate justice that takes seriously the need for States to voluntarily agree on a common climate regime? How to apply Boltanski and Thevenot's approach to justification to this issue? These are two of the many issues addressed in this book. It is the very personal outcome of decades of in-depth work devoted to bridging ideas from international relations, political philosophy, environmental economics and first-hand observations of climate negotiations. Timely and insightful!' -- Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain, Belgium

‘Godard knows the facts, has a very good overview of the philosophical literature on the subject and is perfectly informed about the political discussions of the last quarter of a century. His quest is not for a new justification of global climate justice, but for a way to bring us further than the many already existing conceptions have brought us hitherto.’ -- Norbert Campagna, Ethical Perspectives 'Justice considerations lie at the heart of international discussions to deal with climate change. This timely book, by one of the best scholars and advisors on climate policy, provides a comprehensive, yet rigorously critical (with due emphasis on the peculiarities of the international sphere), account of existing demands on the matter, from ''intergenerational equity'' to ''equal rights for every human being'' to the ''historical responsibility of the North''. It ends with a new framework, drawn from justification theory, for articulating concrete compromises out of rival viewpoints. A must-read for climate policy makers, advisors, analysts and scholars.' -- Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, HEC Montréal, Canada 'For all its details, climate change is fundamentally a moral issue. Godard manages with elegance and sharp analysis to guide us through the big philosophical, economic and political questions.' -- Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 'How to propose a theory of climate justice that takes seriously the need for States to voluntarily agree on a common climate regime? How to apply Boltanski and Thévenot's approach to justification to this issue? These are two of the many issues addressed in this book. It is the very personal outcome of decades of in-depth work devoted to bridging ideas from international relations, political philosophy, environmental economics and first-hand observations of climate negotiations. Timely and insightful!' -- Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain, Belgium

'Justice considerations lie at the heart of international discussions to deal with climate change. This timely book, by one of the best scholars and advisors on climate policy, provides a comprehensive account, yet rigorously critical (with due emphasis on the peculiarities of the international sphere), of existing demands on the matter, from 'intergenerational equity' to 'equal rights for every human being' to the 'historical responsibility of the North.' It ends with a new framework, drawn from justification theory, for articulating concrete compromises out of rival viewpoints. A must-read for climate policy makers, advisors, analysts and scholars.' -- Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne, HEC Montreal, Canada 'For all its details, climate change is fundamentally a moral issue. Godard manages with elegance and sharp analysis to guide us through the big philosophical, economic and political questions. Catastrophe in slow-motion, many of us will never feel the consequences nor really know if what we did was right. The book concludes with a poignant image of our generation making promises to future generations like throwing bottles into the sea as messages to unknown recipients. Another image would be selflessly helping strangers - not in the expectation of reward but because it is right.' -- Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 'How to propose a theory of climate justice that takes seriously the need for States to voluntarily agree on a common climate regime? How to apply Boltanski and Thevenot's approach to justification to this issue? These are two of the many issues addressed in this book. It is the very personal outcome of decades of in-depth work devoted to bridging ideas from international relations, political philosophy, environmental economics and first-hand observations of climate negotiations. Timely and insightful!' -- Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain, Belgium

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Olivier Godard, formerly Senior Research Associate, Department of Economics, École Polytechnique, France

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