WHAT CLIMATE JUSTICE? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

The conception of climate justice as expressed by both the UN climate regime and large parts of civil society exists within a monetary/distributional/compensatory ideological, universal/izing framework. This article will offer a Gramscian critique of such framing of justice, in order to liberate space and elaborate a thicker, embodied conceptualization of climate justice. I will try to “deconstruct ” the justice-equity-distribution relation, by making visible the links between mainstream articulations of justice, and showing how justice becomes an ideological tool aimed at winning the consent of a wide social base necessary for the renegotiation and (re)solidification of an emerging hegemonic historic bloc, aimed at the reconfiguration of capitalism under conditions of ecological/climate crisis.. The article will conclude by offering a preliminary elaboration of an alternative, vision of climate equity and justice