Climate change is the most difficult threat facing humanity this century and negotiations to reach international agreement have so far foundered on deep issues of justice. Providing provocative and imaginative answers to key questions of justice, informed by political insight and scientific understanding, this book offers a new way forward.

• Introduction


• 1: The Unavoidability of Justice


• 2: Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions


• 3: After You: May Action by the Rich Be Contingent Upon Action by the Poor?


• 4: Avoidable Necessity: Global Warming, International Fairness, and Alternative Energy


• 5: Equity in An International Agreement on Climate Change


• 6: Environmental Change and the Varieties of Justice


• 7: Eroding Sovereignty: The Advance of Principle


• 8: Bequeathing Hazards: Security Rights and Property Rights of Future Humans


• 9: Global Environment and International Inequality


• 10: Climate


• 11: A Legacy of Danger: The Kyoto Protocol and Future Generations


• 12: Responsibility to Future Generations and the Technological Transition


• 13: Making Exceptions


• 14: Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?


• 15: Face Reality? After You!: A Call for Leadership on Climate Change


• 16: Human Rights, Climate Change, and the Trillionth Ton


• 17: Climate Hope: Implementing the Exit Strategy


• Appendix: Declaration on Climate Justice

Henry Shue is best known for his 1980 book, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton; 2nd ed., 1996) and his articles, "Torture " (1978) and "Mediating Duties " (1988), he has taught at the University of North Carolina, Wellesley College, University of Maryland, Cornell University, and Oxford. After initial research on human rights, especially economic rights, he has during recent decades concentrated on practical philosophy concerning war, on which he edited Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Constraint (Cambridge, 1989), Preemption (Oxford, 2007), Just and Unjust Warriors (Oxford, 2008), and The American Way of Bombing (forthcoming).