Making Sand Castles as the Tide Comes In: Legal Aspects of Climate Justice
9 Pages Posted: 12 May 2011 Last revised: 22 Mar 2014
Date Written: 2011
Abstract
Achieving climate justice and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are mutually- reinforcing challenges. The achievement of both is well within the capacity of the international community. Indeed, reaching carbon neutrality in an affordable, environmentally sound way requires integrating the strategies of mitigation, adaptation, sustainable development, and disaster risk management.
Keywords: Climate Change, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Sustainable Development, United Nations, International Law, environmentally sound tech, mitigation, adaptation, sustainable development, and disaster risk management, public participation, Governance, water
JEL Classification: Q2, Q4, F2, R1, A13, K1, K2, K3, L9, N3, N5, N7, O1, O2, O3, P1, P2, P5, R5, Z10, C7, D6, D8, E2, E6
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