Carbon Colonialism or Climate Justice: Interrogating the International Climate Regime from a TWAIL Perspective
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CARBON COLONIALISM OR CLIMATE JUSTICE? INTERROGATING THE
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE REGIME FROM A TWAIL PERSPECTIVE
Julia Dehm
This article provides a TWAIL critique of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change [UNFCCC] in the aftermath of the 21st Conference of the Parties in
Paris in December 2015. It engages with criticisms from the social and climate justice
movement that the UNFCCC is promoting forms of carbon colonialism or
CO2lonialism through its support for and establishment of international carbon
trading and offsetting strategies. It proposes that using a jurisdictional approach to
examine how the authority of the UNFCCC is authorized can provide key analytical tools
to understand the regime. The article examines the way in which the regime is authorized
by an invocation of common concern even as it promotes policies that marginalize the
interests of those already most vulnerable to climate change. It concludes by suggesting
that climate justice movements already are building different forms of commonality and
that these alternative commonalties represent important new ways of thinking about
global action on climate change.
L'auteure de cet article fait une critique, a travers le prisme de TWAIL, de la
Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques [CCNUCC] au
lendemain de la 21e Confirence des Parties, tenue a Paris en dicembre 2015. Elle ajoute
aux reprochesformuks par le mouvement dejustice sociale et climatique, selon lequel la
CCNUCC fait la promotion de formes de a colonialisme du carbone ) ou de
a CO2lonialisme > en appuyant et en tablissant des strategies internationales
d'dchanges de droits d'dmission de carbone et de compensation carbone. L'auteure
soutient qu'en tudiant selon une ddmarche juridictionnelle lafagon dont le pouvoir de la
CCNUCC est approuv&, on se donne d'importants moyens analytiques pour comprendre
ce rdgime. L'auteure se penche sur la manikre dont ce rdgime est approuvi par
l'invocation d'une a preoccupation commune > mdme lorsque celafavorise des politiques
qui marginalisent les intirdts de populations ddja tris fragiles vis-a-vis des changements
climatiques. Elle conclut en laissant entendre que les mouvements enfaveur de lajustice
climatique s'emploient ddja a ddfinir diffdrents dlments communs et que ceux-ci
constituent de nouvelles manikres de rdflichir sur les mesures mondiales en matikre de
changements climatiques.
Julia Dehm is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin,
jdehm@law.utexas.edu. Many thanks to the people who participated in the TWAIL Conference in Cairo in February
2015 and the subsequent workshop at the University of Windsor in June 2015 where an earlier draft of this article was
presented and discussed. Many thanks also to the editors of this special edition, especially Usha Natarajan for helpful
guidance in clarifying the argument, as well as to the two anonymous referees. Finally, many thanks are also due to Adil
Hasan Khan for his comments on earlier versions of this article.
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