Current international negotiations to address climate change are marked by growing divergence between government proposals and those advanced by civil society. The Conference of the Parties (COP) process has promoted a set of market-based policy instruments as the primary means to facilitate...

To date, the international community’s response to the problem of global climate changehas been preoccupied with concerns of markets, profit and efficiency, rather than social andenvironmental justice. The absence of explicit operational commitments to justice ininternational efforts to...

This report brings into focus the cumulative environmental, social, energy, economic, and climate change related risks borne by local communities and identifies potential strategies to alleviate the burdens these risks impose. The cumulative risk profile discussed in this report is based on best...