Achieving climate justice and the Millennium Development Goals (“MDGs”)2 are mutually reinforcing challenges. The achievement of both is well within the capacity of the international community. Indeed, reaching carbon neutrality in an affordable, environmentally sound way requires integrating the strategies of mitigation, adaptation, sustainable development, and disaster risk management.
Elizabeth Burleson, Making Sand Castles as the Tide Comes In: Legal Aspects of Climate Justice, 2 J. Energy Envtl. L. 422 (2011)