Responsibility & Justice
in Planetary Perspective
The Legal Geographies of Climate Change project renders visible connections between legally constructed geographies of climate change and questions of responsibility and justice. Ultimately, where law places climate risks and harms shapes who is held accountable and how justice may be achieved.
The climate is close-up and far away, A shared planetary reality and locally specific.
The distribution of climate change across multiple scales and locations complicates questions that law is grappling with:
Who is to be accountable for which climate risks and harms?
And how are legal institutions and normative frameworks to assign responsibility?