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Climate justice discussions need new participants and new audiences

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We greatly appreciate Coolsaet et al.’s Correspondence1, which gives us the opportunity to clarify and emphasize the scope and intended use of our framework.

With respect to scope, we are in agreement with our colleagues that various forms of justice (that is, distributional, procedural and so on) have been discussed in different disciplines. We thus believe, as stated in our paper, that the novelty of our contribution lies not predominantly “in the philosophical structure, but in the cross-disciplinary translation [of philosophical concepts], the clarity of exposition and ease of application”2. For instance, by indicating how the various forms of justice are independent, we hope to facilitate researchers finding and specifying the precise forms of justice that are most relevant to their own projects.

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  1. Department of Philosophy and Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Kian Mintz-Woo

  2. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

    Kian Mintz-Woo, Caroline Zimm, Elina Brutschin, Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Jarmo Kikstra, Shonali Pachauri, Keywan Riahi & Thomas Schinko

  3. Climate Policy Lab, Department for Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Susanne Hanger-Kopp

  4. The Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Jarmo Kikstra

  5. Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Jarmo Kikstra

  6. Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Keywan Riahi

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Mintz-Woo, K., Zimm, C., Brutschin, E. et al. Climate justice discussions need new participants and new audiences. Nat. Clim. Chang. 15, 122–123 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02219-4

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