Book Reviews and New Publications

Review Essay: Ethics and International Adaptation Funding? Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime by Marco Grasso. Berlin: Springer, 2010. 184 pp., £90.00, hardbound Anthropogenic climate change has been described as an environmental problem, a social problem, and a technology problem. However, at its heart climate change is also a matter of international justice because it is characterized by a “double inequity”: those countries that are most vulnerable to climate change have generally contributed least (on a per capita basis) to causing it.1 The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) contains various provisions for fina...