International Environmental Law and Distributive Justice

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is widely regarded as one of the Kyoto Protocol¿s best creations and as an essential part of the international climate change regime. The CDM has registered over 6,000 projects, and is constantly evolving to ensure that it fulfils its objectives of mitigating climate change. Nevertheless, the CDM is not perfect, and one of its main problems is the inequitable geographic distribution of projects among developing countries. This book looks at distributive justice under the CDM regime and focuses on the issue of equity in the geographic distribution of CDM projects among developing countries. The book investigates relevant aspects of international law to identify the legal characteristics of equitable distribution or distributive justice, in order to establish what equitable distribution in the CDM should look like.