The biodiversity crisis and global justice: a research agenda

Abstract

The biodiversity crisis should be a key issue within debates on global justice–but to date it has not been. This article aims to provide a stimulus to further engagement. First, it provides a brief introduction to the notion of a biodiversity crisis, and to its origins. Second, it distinguishes our various reasons for caring about the crisis. Third, it shows why the biodiversity crisis raises important–albeit hitherto neglected–issues of global justice. Fourth, it sketches some of the most important questions scholars of global justice should be in a position to engage with, in order to move the debate forwards and help ensure that collective political responses to the crisis are just ones.