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Climate Justice

What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future

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The MIT Press
On sale Feb 17, 2026 | 216 Pages | 9780262053976
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The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of—and what it means.

If you’re injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you’ve caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what’s at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live—which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.
Chapter 1: Climate Change Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 2: Rich Nations, Poor Nations
Chapter 3: Future Generations
Chapter 4: Valuing Life: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Chapter 5: Adaptation
Chapter 6: Consumers
Epilogue: Theory and Practice
Appendix: Excerpts from the Paris Agreement
Acknowledgements
Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the cofounder and codirector of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge, Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.
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The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of—and what it means.

If you’re injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you’ve caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what’s at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live—which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Climate Change Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 2: Rich Nations, Poor Nations
Chapter 3: Future Generations
Chapter 4: Valuing Life: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Chapter 5: Adaptation
Chapter 6: Consumers
Epilogue: Theory and Practice
Appendix: Excerpts from the Paris Agreement
Acknowledgements

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Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the cofounder and codirector of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge, Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.
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