A relational analysis of enterprise obligations and carbon majors for climate justice

A coherent theory of climate justice must answer the question of “who owes what to whom, and why?” This paper considers the human rights responsibilities of business enterprises for climate injustice. I first introduce a relational approach to legal analysis, drawing upon the wor...

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Main Author: Sara L. Seck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2021-02-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1217
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Summary:A coherent theory of climate justice must answer the question of &ldquo;who owes what to whom, and why?&rdquo; This paper considers the human rights responsibilities of business enterprises for climate injustice. I first introduce a relational approach to legal analysis, drawing upon the work of diverse theorists who confront the dominant yet unacknowledged prevalence of the bounded autonomous individual of liberal thought in diverse areas of law and policy, and offer a method for reinterpretation and transformation of law in the Anthropocene. I then examine the 2018 Principles on Climate Obligations of Enterprises, drafted by a sub-group of the legal experts responsible for the 2015 Oslo Principles. Ultimately, I argue that a coherent theory of justice in the Anthropocene is dependent upon relational insights which enable us to tell old stories in new ways, and so reveal the interconnectedness and interdependence of all beings, while accounting for power and difference. <br /><br /> Una teor&iacute;a coherente sobre justicia clim&aacute;tica debe responder la pregunta de &ldquo;&iquest;Qui&eacute;n debe qu&eacute; a qui&eacute;n, y por qu&eacute;?&rdquo; Este art&iacute;culo trata sobre las responsabilidades que tienen las empresas sobre derechos humanos por injusticia clim&aacute;tica. Primero, se presenta un enfoque relacional sobre el an&aacute;lisis jur&iacute;dico, bas&aacute;ndonos en el trabajo de diversos te&oacute;ricos que se enfrentan a la prevalencia dominante &ndash;aunque no reconocida&ndash; del individuo aut&oacute;nomo pero limitado del pensamiento liberal en varias &aacute;reas de derecho y pol&iacute;ticas, y se propone un m&eacute;todo de reinterpretaci&oacute;n y transformaci&oacute;n del derecho en el Antropoceno. Despu&eacute;s, examinamos los Principios sobre Obligaciones de las Empresas respecto al Cambio Clim&aacute;tico, bosquejadas en 2018 por un subgrupo de los expertos juristas responsables de los Principios de Oslo de 2015. Finalmente, se aduce que una teor&iacute;a coherente de la justicia en el Antropoceno depende de visiones relacionales que nos permitan relatar viejas historias de formas nuevas, y revelar as&iacute; la interconectividad e interdependencia de todos los seres, al tiempo que se explican as&iacute; el poder y la diferencia.<br /><strong><br /> Available from:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1139" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1139</a>
ISSN:2079-5971