The Failure of Climate Crisis Response and the Climate Justice Movement

Despite the establishment of the international regime to prevent climate change in the 1990s, responses to the climate crisis have failed repeatedly, with carbon emissions increasing exponentially and global temperatures rising unabated. This paper diagnoses the cause of these failures as the market-oriented paradigm of the international climate regime, prioritizing profits and growth over public values such as climate, ecology, and equality. It then explores the concept of climate justice as an alternative to mainstream approaches and examines the perspectives and practical significance of the emerging climate justice movement. The central argument of the paper is that, given the necessity for rapid and radical responses to the climate crisis, the perspective of climate justice has most clearly articulated the essential changes and the actions required to achieve them. The paper concludes by arguing for the urgent adoption of solutions based on the principles of climate justice.