Global environmental sustainability: Intragenerational equity and conceptions of justice in multilateral environmental regimes |
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Authors: | Chukwumerije Okereke |
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Affiliation: | School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, Chancellors Building, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK |
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Abstract: | With specific focus on two environmental regimes (the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and the Climate Change Convention), this paper seeks to indicate the prospects and limitations of the aspirations for distributive justice by the political South within the context of sustainability in general, and the institutions for global environmental governance in particular. It is argued that while these aspirations have produced important normative shifts in the rule-structure of global environmental management, they have not proved momentous enough to generate policies outside of what the prevailing neoliberal socio-economic regime might permit. Hence, although the texts of global environmental agreements accommodate concepts that express egalitarian notions of justice, core policies remain firmly rooted in market-based neoliberal interpretations of justice, which mainly serve to sustain the status quo. |
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Keywords: | Environmental justice Intragenerational equity Conceptions of justice Neoliberalism Global environmental governance Neoliberal justice Regimes |
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