CLIMATE JUSTICE AND THE PROTECTION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
CLIMATE JUSTICE AND THE PROTECTION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: Changes in climate caused by global warming resulting from greenhouse gas emissions increasingly threaten our present and our future, and therefore our ability to react to protect the climate, biodiversity, and human health is at stake. The effects of climate change are complex and long-lasting for future generations, wich has led to increased international concern regarding environmental protection, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the development of legal and institutional mechanisms capable of holding states and economic actors accountable for environmental degradation. In this context, climate change has contributed to the emergence and development of the concept of "climate justice". Climate justice is a recognition of the fact that climate change has far-reaching effects, the effects of the climate crisis being felt differently, as the UN notes, between rich and poor, women and men, older and younger generations. The introduction of the concept of "climate justice" aimed to encourage the connection and collaboration between the climate movement and the international environmental community.

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