ABSTRACT
In this chapter, author claims that climate change poses important questions of global justice, both about mitigating the change that is now under way and about adapting to its consequences. He argues for a mixed policy of mitigation and adaptation, and defends one particular approach to mitigation. The author also claims that those of us who are rich by global standards and benefit from excess emissions have strenuous duties in our roles as citizens, consumers, producers, and so on to reduce our emissions and to finance adaptation. Some adaptations are conscious responses to climate change while others are not. Intuitively, this distinction is between climate change policy adaptations and those responses that are autonomous or automatic. On another dimension, some adaptations are anticipatory while others are reactive. The Least Developed Countries Fund supports the development of adaptation action plans. The Special Climate Change Fund assists all developing countries with adaptation projects and technology transfer.
