ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the question and examines the failure in urban environmental governance in Bangladesh, a country highly vulnerable to climate change and thereby seeking climate justice in global negotiations. The question has arisen whether a developing state seeking climate justice from other countries is obligated to ensure environmental justice for its own citizens. The chapter attempts to unfold the debate around the dilemma and presents a governance framework to move forward in mitigating conflict between claiming climate justice and ensuring climate or environmental justice. As some industrialized countries differed in their approach to domestic environmental justice and global climate justice, both academic and nonacademic discussions have so far focused on such discrepant behavior of industrialized countries. The justice system should ensure fairness among all stakeholders with different interests. If everyone engages in this manner, the government would be able to establish global legitimacy to effectively insist on global climate justice, while ensuring environmental justice at the national level.
