num_pages: 267
description: This is an indispensable book for anyone who seeks to understand world leaders' responses to climate change through the United Nations' Conference of the Parties (COP). Politics of Climate Justice provides the vital background and theoretical context to what happened at the COPS in Kyoto Copenhagen Cancun and Durban. It explores the favored strategies of key elites from the crisis ridden global and national power blocs including South Africa and finds them incapable of reconciling the threat to the planet with their economies' addiction to fossil fuels. Finally the book reveals sites of climate justice and interrogates the new movement's approach.
language: English
title: Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below
publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press