The document discusses equity and fairness in the climate regime, highlighting tensions between principles of equal responsibility and capability in addressing climate change impacts. It analyzes how concepts of equity and justice are reflected, contested, and operationalized in the UNFCCC regime through mechanisms like Common But Differentiated Responsibilities. Understanding different rationalities of equity can help bridge conflicting discourses and inform more inclusive climate governance.

1. CLIMATE
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2. Overview
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10. Reality

11. Changing realities

12. Changing geographies of responsibility

13. Research questions
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18. Value articulation

19. Discourse - Whose justice?

20. Equality of what?
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21. Equity
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22. Wicked problems…
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23. Framing development

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26. Cultural Theory

27. Multiple rationalities of equity
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30. Towards institutional plurality
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31. Conclusions
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35. Conclusions & Policy Implications
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38. A last inconvenient truth…

39. Challenges & white spots
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40. Thank you
‘Nobody made a bigger mistake than he who
did nothing because he could only do a little.’
- Edmund Burke

41. Questions?