Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In discussions of climate and sustainability transitions, justice has come to play a prominent role—specifically, justice in how a transition treats the people affected by it. This Perspective article asks how justice claims in such transitions can be more clearly distinguished and integrated. It introduces two distinctions: a temporal distinction between transitional distribution and post-transition distribution, and a scope distinction between transition-bound and structural-scope approaches. The article also discusses the procedural justice questions of how and by whom substantive transition decisions should be made.
Source: npj Climate Action
Authors: Thant Thura Zan, Thomas Pogge
Institutions: Kyoto University, Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,340
OpenAlex ID: W7154379434