The EU and global climate justice. Normative power caught in normative battles, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Abstract

Humanity faces one of the greatest challenges in its existence because of the impacts of climate change. Scientific research has already proven that it is human activities, mainly industrialization, that were the main reason for the rising temperatures. Increasing wildfires, rising sea levels, and natural disasters remind us that it is the very time to act before it becomes too late. The book entitled The EU and Global Climate Justice is based on comprehensive research conducted by four scholars and aims to create a linkage between philosophical works on climate justice and policies of the European Union (EU) towards climate change. The basic research questions of the book are as follows: How can the EU’s climate policies be analyzed using the concepts of climate justice? How and why did the EU policies change and evolve? How can this change be accounted for from a conceptual framework? Although there are extensive works on the EU’s policies towards climate change in the literature, the lack of research about the examination of the EU’s attitude from the dimension of climate justice is the starting point of this book.