| Summary/Abstract |
Climate change is having profound implications for people, places and economies in the Asia Pacific region. Displacement due to actual or anticipated climate‐related risks is likely to increase in the future, generating new geographies of risk for those affected. The uneven and harmful consequences of displacement foreground the need to consider matters of justice in particular contexts, in terms of: how decisions are made; the distribution of the outcomes of those decisions, and whose knowledge, values and culture are taken into account in decision‐making (Miller, 2019). At a more international scale, the focus on justice also highlights the highly uneven nature of responsibility for climate change, the disproportionate burden of climate change risks on communities who have contributed little to the problem in terms of historical greenhouse gas emissions, and the lack of substantive action on climate change amongst high emitting countries (Ikeme, 2003; Füssel, 2010; Leckie and Simperingham, 2015).
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