How Climate Justice Framings Should Affect Environmental Law: The Case for Establishing an Environmental Court of Justice

我的主要研究问题是，是否可以通过使用气候司法框架来提出建立环境法院的理由。气候变化给国际秩序及其所有行动者和机构带来了许多挑战，我认为目前的应对措施不足以应对这些挑战。继续主导国际法律秩序的以国家为中心的做法往往对气候正义不屑一顾，因为认为气候变化的负担永远不会在主权边界上平均分配，因此不那么重要。然而，国际体系中普遍存在的内在不平等，以及气候变化行动的特定背景下存在的内在不平等，说明了为什么有必要对国际秩序，特别是规范国际体系的法律秩序进行质疑和潜在的重组。通过规范理论方法，利用话语分析等定性方法，我将评估气候正义框架是否可以用来为建立环境法院提出理由。我认为，如果以此为契机，建立一个多层次的法律治理机构，为气候正义问题提出一种新的办法，就可以提出一个理由。

My primary research question is whether a case can be made for the establishment of an Environmental Court of Justice through the use of climatejustice framings. Climate change presents many challenges to the international order and all the actors and institutions in it, and I believe thecurrent response has been inadequate to deal with those challenges. The state-centric approach that continues to dominate the international legalorder often dismisses climate justice because of the assumption that climate change burdens will never been evenly distributed across sovereignborders and therefore is of less importance. However, the inherent inequalities present both in the international system broadly but also in thespecific context of climate change action illustrates why there is the need for a questioning and potential restructuring of the international order,and especially the legal order governing the international system. Through a normative theory approach utilising qualitative methods likediscourse analysis I am to assess whether climate justice framings can be used to make a case for the establishment of an Environmental Court ofJustice. I suggest that that a case could be made if it was used as an opportunity to establish a multilevel legal governance body that presented anovel approach to issues of climate justice.