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18 Int'l Env't Agreements: Pol. L. & Econs. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/intenve18 and id is 1 raw text is: Int Environ Agreements (2018) 18:1-9                                     CrossMark
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-018-9389-x
INEA editorial: Achieving 1.5 *C and climate justice
Kate Dooley' - Joyeeta Gupta2 Anand Patwardhan3
Accepted: 16 January 2018/Published online: 1 February 2018
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018
1 Introduction
The Paris Agreement (PA) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) aims at holding the increase in the global average temperature to well
below 2 0C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature
increase to 1.5 0C above pre-industrial levels. Further, it states that efforts to achieve the
long-term temperature goal must be carried out on the basis of equity, and in the context
of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty (UNFCCC 2015). In 2015,
the Parties to the UNFCCC invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) to put together a Special Report on emission pathways to, and impacts of,
achieving a 1.5 0C objective, to be published in October 2018. This special report will be a
key input for the Facilitative Dialogue in 2018 that will look at enhancing the ambition of
the nationally determined contributions (NDC's) of Parties before 2020. Research into
such pathways and impacts often does not consider the equity aspects, and this is why this
Special Issue engages with the topic of Achieving 1.5 0C and Climate Justice, as a means
of strengthening the base of literature that could, inter alia, be drawn upon by the IPCC
Special Report. We examine the equity, or climate justice, dimensions raised within
® Kate Dooley
kate.dooley@climate-energy-college.org
Joyeeta Gupta
J.Gupta@uva.nl
Anand Patwardhan
apat@umd.edu
Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
2  Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
3  School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

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