Book

García-Portela, L. (2025) Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage. Routledge.

This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage can be realized by bridging the worlds of political philosophy, climate science and climate policy together. The book focuses on three fundamental questions: what kinds of climate impacts should count as loss and damage, how climate science can help us identify them and who should bear the burdens of providing reparations for loss and damage. I defend the appropriatness of a principle of historical responsibility proportional to emissions records grounded in my Continuity Account. Striving to improve the reader’s understanding of loss and damage as outlined by The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate justice, environmental justice, and environmental ethics.

This book is based on my doctoral dissertation, which was awarded two nation-wide prizes: the Luis Díez del Corral Prize from the Center of Political and Constitutional Studies in Spain in 2022 (research centered attached to the Ministry of Presidency) for the best dissertation in political philosophy from a Spanish scholar or from a Spanish university, and the Roland Atefie Prize from the Austrian Academy of Science in 2023 for the best dissertation in philosophy in Austria.

Book reviews:

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