Carbon Trading and Climate Justice

This book offers a significant and critical exploration of the integration between market-based climate change solutions with social equity and also its role of carbon markets in addressing the climate change and social equity. It brings together a diverse range of academics, scholars, activists, policy experts, and practitioners who examine how carbon trading mechanisms such as cap-and-trade systems and carbon offset markets, emission markets will evolve to address global emissions while striving for fairness and justice with its influence on global sustainability efforts. The volume delves into the promises and pitfalls of market-driven approaches and also various market based strategies to reduce carbon emissions, analyzing their effectiveness, ethical implications, and impacts on vulnerable communities.Through various case studies, interdisciplinary perspectives, theoretical insights, and policy analysis, the book sheds light on how future climate policy can be designed to balance the economic efficiency with climate justice and inclusion and to offer future pathways for integrating environmental sustainability with equitable development.