ABSTRACT
The last 25 years have seen climate change become one of the defining international issues of the present time, evolving from scientific warnings of "global warming" to the complex challenge we understand today. This chapter outlines the history of climate change as an international issue and how its complex justice elements have been interpreted and utilized by scholars, campaigners and policymakers. It discusses how scholars have analysed and conceived of the many facets of climate justice. The chapter explores the intellectual and advocacy links between the movement pursuing global climate justice and the more established environmental justice movement from which it emerged. It traces the role of climate justice in global governance institutions and the varied positions on justice presented by nation states. The chapter provides an overview of these three important and interlinking realms of climate justice, all of which are central to a cohesive understanding of the climate change problem and our collective response to it.
