Navigating The Nexus: Exploring The Paradigmic Divergences In Climate Justice, Sustainability And Social Justice
- IJLLR Journal
- Jun 15
- 2 min read
Dr. Mamta Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, JBSPS’s Bhagubai Changu Thakur College of Law, New Panvel, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
ABSTRACT
The ever-increasing disproportionate justice paradigm existing between the developed and developing nations has contributed immensely to topographical, climatic and atmospheric dilapidations of the Third World countries. The developed nations should be responsible for causing the deteriorating environmental conditions of the developing nations, contributing to extreme climate change, a rise in sea levels, damage to crops, leading towards poverty and migration and numerous other environmental degradations. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enumerated by the developed nations, aimed towards globally protecting and preserving the environment for our future generations, have been proposed through a justice framework. Climate Justice (CJ) is another aspect that highlights the inefficient policies and power arrangements at the local level of governance. There exists a correlation between the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Justice that brings to light that environmental protection and preservation can be achieved by addressing the various dimensions of justice and inequality. It has been observed that the framework of SDGs has been formulated in such a way that justice has been encompassed within its broad structure. The adaptation policies framed by the developed states are detrimental to the values and human rights of the vulnerable. There is an utmost need to address the loopholes that stresses upon the need to deal with technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries, asymmetric power distribution and to have an economic growth that deals head on with poverty and its multi-dimensional aspects, which intervenes with the concept of freedom, liberty and justice of an individual. A close study of the various SDGs, understanding their interrelationships, and implementing them in a combined manner can eventually lead towards environmental justice.
Keywords: environment, justice, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Climate Justice (CJ).
