Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World--And the Future

The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of--and what it means.

If you're injuring someone, you should stop--and pay for the damage you've caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live--which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 02/17/2026
ISBN: 9780262053976
Pages: 216