ABSTRACT
The world's climate is undergoing dramatic and rapid changes. Most notably the Earth has been becoming markedly warmer and its weather has, in addition to this, become increasingly unpredictable. These changes have had, and continue to have, important consequences for human life. In this paper I wish to examine what is the fairest way of dealing with the burdens created by global climate change. Who should bear the burdens? Should it be those who caused the problem? Should
it be those best able to deal with the problem? Or should it be someone else? In this paper I defend a distinctive cosmopolitan theory of justice, criticize a key principle of international environmental law, and, moreover, challenge the 'common but differentiated responsibility' approach that is affirmed in current international environmental law.
