ABSTRACT
The threats posed by global climate change are severe, and are already impacting on natural resources, food security, human health, the environment, economic activity and physical infrastructure. The quest for social justice is central to international human rights, development and environmental conventions and the global issues they aim to govern. This is nowhere more so than for climate change: massive questions of distributional justice between countries now, and of equity intergenerationally, result from what has been termed the biggest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen (Stern 2006).
