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    The international climate change regime is structurally u... — Carmelics
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    The international climate change regime is structurally unjust toward the poorest nations.

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    • 1.The hottest, poorest, and most agriculturally dependent countries have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions.
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    • 2.These same countries are being harmed first and most severely by global warming.
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    • 3.Enforceable requirements to reduce emissions continue to be blocked by high-emission countries.
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    • 1.Structural injustice requires a unified agent with decision-making power; the climate regime is a decentralized system lacking such agency.
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    • 2.Simon Caney and David Miller distinguish between systemic outcomes and injustice requiring an identifiable responsible party.
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    • 3.Without a duty-bearing agent capable of structural reform, the charge of injustice lacks the correlativity required by rights-based frameworks.
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    • 1.Rawlsian global justice, as articulated in The Law of Peoples, holds that international obligations extend only to assisting 'burdened societies,' not to rectifying differential climate impacts.
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    • 2.On Rawls's account, the primary site of distributive justice is the domestic basic structure, not the international order, limiting the scope of 'structural injustice' claims.
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    • 3.Pogge's institutional harm threshold—not mere disadvantage but actively imposed deprivation—may not be met when emission reductions are absent rather than actively coercive.
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    Perhaps most foundationally, the self-interest reason for nations to engage globally in public health cannot be separated from questions of global structural injustice in international relations more broadly. Many threats to public health, including the threats from climate change, cannot be effectively addressed absent collective global action. However, in today’s global order in which nations differ greatly in wealth and other forms of power, the likelihood that agreements and coordinated acti
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    These same countries are being harmed first and most severely by global warming.
    Without a duty-bearing agent capable of structural reform, the charge of injusti...
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