ABSTRACT
Climate justice has emerged as an important concept in the political discourse around climate change. Although there is no agreed-upon definition of climate justice, the Eurocentric logic is at the core of it. Indigenous peoples are already experiencing the effects of climate change and have joined the climate justice movement, bringing their cosmovision, knowledge and values. This chapter will examine the perspectives around climate justice of indigenous peoples from the Andean region from a theoretical approach. The existing coloniality of knowledge has silenced the voices of indigenous peoples in the academic and political debate. Indigenous peoples are critical to the anthropocentric concept of climate justice and propose to transform it from a cosmocentric perspective. Recognising Mother Earth as a being with rights and constructing an alternative development paradigm based on the concept of living-well are two key elements of the cosmocentric concept of climate justice that indigenous peoples promote. In this context, living-well constitutes a holistic and systemic alternative to the current development paradigm.
