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Is climate justice possible without degrowth?

The Paris Agreement is a very specific document, that was substantially revised between the proposal at the start of the conference and the final text, reflecting a very specific response to a set of globally crucial issues concerning rapid climate change in this century. Our closing point is a question of whether orientation on growth of the type suffused through the Agreement text and most commonly promulgated around the world as the desirable (green) growth and (green) investment can lead to the desired goal of 1.5-2C temperature limit. En route, we will touch upon the nuances and possibilities of global climate justice in UN agreements of this type, and instruments of loss and damage, liability, development aspirations and standards, climate refugees. The presentation outlines the findings from the 10-day observant participation in the COP21 negotations in Paris. It opens by constrasting the ideal imaginable agreement based on the best available science, with the situation of no global deal on climate change and the race for what's left. It follows by positioning of the evaluation of the actual agreement text between these two extremes, and concludes with the proposal that we should not call the Paris Agreement a good deal, much less a life-saving one.

climate justice, degrowth, Paris Agreement, climate science, UN

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