A relational analysis of enterprise obligations and carbon majors for climate justice
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Climate justice, relational theory, business and human rights, carbon majors, international human rights law, Justicia climática, teoría relacional, derechos empresariales y humanos, principales empresas responsables de emisiones de carbonoAbstract
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 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.Una teoría coherente sobre justicia climática debe responder la pregunta de “¿Quién debe qué a quién, y por qué?” Este artículo trata sobre las responsabilidades que tienen las empresas sobre derechos humanos por injusticia climática. Primero, se presenta un enfoque relacional sobre el análisis jurídico, basándonos en el trabajo de diversos teóricos que se enfrentan a la prevalencia dominante –aunque no reconocida– del individuo autónomo pero limitado del pensamiento liberal en varias áreas de derecho y políticas, y se propone un método de reinterpretación y transformación del derecho en el Antropoceno. Después, examinamos los Principios sobre Obligaciones de las Empresas respecto al Cambio Climático, bosquejadas en 2018 por un subgrupo de los expertos juristas responsables de los Principios de Oslo de 2015. Finalmente, se aduce que una teoría coherente de la justicia en el Antropoceno depende de visiones relacionales que nos permitan relatar viejas historias de formas nuevas, y revelar así la interconectividad e interdependencia de todos los seres, al tiempo que se explican así el poder y la diferencia.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1139
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