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    It is not the case that The international climate change regime is structurally unjust toward the poorest nations.

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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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    • 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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