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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102036
	“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations
	Thew H.; Middlemiss L.; Paavola J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	61
英文摘要	Youth articulations of climate change injustice are experiencing an unprecedented moment in the spotlight as, inspired by Greta Thunberg, young people around the world take to the streets demanding justice for their generation in the face of climate emergency. Formal opportunities for youth voices to be heard in environmental governance are slim, although the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) offers a rare opportunity for youth to share their perspectives as one of nine civil society constituencies: YOUNGO. Recent research in Global Environmental Change has called for empirical exploration of justice claims-making by different stakeholders to develop understanding of how justice is conceptualised and negotiated in climate change governance spaces. To date, climate justice claims from youth have not been explored in the academic literature. This paper draws upon rich, ethnographic, longitudinal data on the evolution of justice claims made by a group of youth participants in the UNFCCC to contribute to this empirical gap. In our research, a UK-based case study organisation and long-established member of YOUNGO was studied between 2015 and 2018, including observation of their participation at the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Conferences of the Parties. We find that youth participants first articulated injustices based on perceived future risks to their generation but, over time, switched to solidarity claims about injustices experienced by other groups in the present. Whilst laudable, this impedes their mandate as representatives of younger generations. We also make three theoretical contributions to environmental justice theory. First we expand participation justice theory to both the visible structures of participation (procedural justice) and the informal rules and discourses shaping participation (representation justice). Second we demonstrate the importance of both external and self-recognition for the articulation of justice claims. Third we clarify the relationship between power and justice claim-making, proposing that we must look beneath what is articulated to shed light on the exercise of ideological power that shapes the framing and claiming of justice in environmental governance spaces. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate Change; Environmental Justice; Participation; Power; Recognition; Youth
学科领域	civil society; climate change; conceptual framework; empirical analysis; environmental justice; governance approach; participatory approach; recognition; research work; stakeholder; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Greta
语种	英语
scopus关键词	civil society; climate change; conceptual framework; empirical analysis; environmental justice; governance approach; participatory approach; recognition; research work; stakeholder; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Greta
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/116969
作者单位	School of Earth and Environment, Sustainability Research Institute, University of LeedsLS2 9JT, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thew H.,Middlemiss L.,Paavola J.. “Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations[J],2020,61.
APA	Thew H.,Middlemiss L.,&Paavola J..(2020).“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations.Global Environmental change,61.
MLA	Thew H.,et al."“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations".Global Environmental change 61(2020).