Friend or foe?: international environmental law and its structural complicity in the Anthropocene’s climate injustices

In this paper, we focus on the structural complicity of international environmental law (IEL) in causing and exacerbating climate injustices. We aim to show that although the intentions behind IEL may be well-meaning, it often inadvertently, but also deliberately at times, plays a role in creating,...

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Authors: Kotzé, Louis J. 1977- (Author) ; Du Toit, Louise (Author) ; French, Duncan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 180-206
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Keywords:
Anthropocene
Antropoceno
Derecho ambiental internacional
International environmental law
cambio climático
Climate Change
climate injustice
injusticia climática
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Summary:In this paper, we focus on the structural complicity of international environmental law (IEL) in causing and exacerbating climate injustices. We aim to show that although the intentions behind IEL may be well-meaning, it often inadvertently, but also deliberately at times, plays a role in creating, sustaining and exacerbating the many paradigms that drive climate injustice in the Anthropocene. We focus on three aspects: IEL’s neoliberal anthropocentrism; its entanglement with (neo)colonialism; and its entrenchment of the sovereign right to exploit energy resources. We conclude with a call for thoroughgoing, and urgent, reform of IEL.
En este artículo, nos centramos en la complicidad estructural del derecho ambiental internacional (DAI) en el origen y la exacerbación de injusticias climáticas. Pretendemos mostrar que, pese a que las intenciones detrás del DAI puedan ser buenas, frecuentemente de forma inadvertida, pero a veces también deliberadamente, desempeña un papel en el origen, el mantenimiento y el agravamiento de muchos paradigmas que dirigen la injusticia climática en el Antropoceno. Nos centramos en tres aspectos: el antropocentrismo neoliberal del DAI; su implicación con el (neo)colonialismo; y su reforzamiento del derecho soberano a explotar recursos energéticos. Concluimos con una llamada a una reforma integral y urgente del DAI.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 198-206
ISSN:2079-5971
DOI:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1140