Title:
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE DEBT AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE (“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.” - John Buchan, British novelist and politician)

Authors:
Ashwin Telang ,USA

Abstract:
As the effects of climate change worsen, poor nations call for climate justice. This Editorial conducts a holistic analysis of this call for climate debt. It examines merit of such calls by applying the three principles of distributive justice. It then demonstrates how international law obligates rich nations to redress poorer nations for climate abuses. Finally, it provides four ways that climate debt can be vindicated. While many developed nations have promised increased climate investment abroad, these are empty promises, plunging poorer nations into debt and insufficiently meeting their demands. This paper offers more comprehensive and justiciable pathway to repay climate debt to poorer nations.