ABSTRACT
This chapter formulates a final account of the scope of climate justice. This account holds that agents acquire obligations of justice to future people whenever they engage in intergenerational actions. This chapter also clarifies three important issues the account must be able to explain: the range of actions that are rightly seen as intergenerational, whether we can have obligations to both near and remote future people, and the role that intergenerational cooperation plays within the account. It argues that a very broad range of common, mundane actions are in fact intergenerational; shows that the account can ground obligations to both near and remote future generations; and suggests that cooperative intergenerational actions ground a broader range of obligations to future people than non-cooperative ones. It then suggests that the proposed can overcome the non-identity problem and the non-existence challenge because it neither relies on a notion of harm to ground duties of justice nor requires the interests it protects to exist in the present.
