ABSTRACT
Issues of equity and justice run through every aspect of the governance of climate change. This chapter places the issue of climate change within the broader context of shifting North–South and broader geopolitical relations as well as exploring its links to key development concerns around aid, debt, and trade, and the ways in which efforts to tackle climate change can be made compatible with the alleviation of poverty and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It looks in turn at three key areas where these issues come to the fore: the question of responsibility; the question of who pays for action on mitigation and adaptation; and the question of who bears the costs of actions and inactions on climate change. It concludes by summarizing some of the key governance challenges that confront efforts to address issues of justice and equity in relation to climate change.
