The European Green Deal and Climate Justice: a Comparative Assessment of International Distributions of Costs and Benefits

In the face of the climate and environmental crises the EU has launched a number of hybrid trade-environment measures that have received mixed responses from trade partners. The research project “Climate Justice & the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” explores the case of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and uses applied ethics methods to explain and appraise climate justice issues present in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the EU’s policy. By outlining different understandings of climate justice in the discursive context of the flagship policy of the European Green Deal, the project hopes to clarify the premises of normative disagreements in the trade-environment nexus, and provide tools for the recursive improvement of policymaking in this area.