Top-Down Climate Control for Global Environmental Stability

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations is a wide-scale action plan for people, planet, and prosperity that strengthens universal peace. Sustainable development is only possible through large-scale stakeholder engagement. In the 17 Sustainable Development Goals with their 169 widespread targets, climate justice plays a fundamental role. In particular the Sustainable Development Goal 13 addresses climate action to combat climate change and its impacts.Climate justice has a history of being discussed in the focal point of law, economics, and governance (Puaschunder 2016c). The implementation of climate stability accounts for the most challenging contemporary global governance predicament that seems to open an abyss of world inequality regarding differing times and degrees to enjoy benefits of a warming earth around the globe. As a novel angle toward climate justice, this entry proposes a global governance solution for a well-balanced climate gains distribution based on micro-, meso-, and macroeconomic analyses results.Overall the entry investigates the nature of climate justice imbalances from an economic and a legal perspective in order to ensure economic justice solutions for advancing global climate stability. The structure of increasingly fragile environmental conditions will be captured in order to derive real-world relevant implications how to improve the overall global environmental conditions for humankind on a global scale but also over time. Through the understanding of climate change gains and losses, climate gain redistribution strategies will be presented. Shedding light on fair global warming gains distribution is meant to aid market economies to be brought to a path consistent with prosperity and sustainability