CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES AND THE COSMOPOLITAN IMPERATIVE

Abstract

Climate change has brought with it adverse challenges, most of which are unprecedented. Some are creating tensions and making existing regulations of world order incapable of handling the outcomes and consequences of climate change. This has motivated the call for cosmopolitanism, a moderate cosmopolitanism that calls for redefinition of sovereignty and relaxation of territorial borders. Based on the above, a new cosmopolitan framework, based on the theories of care ethics and categorical imperative, was suggested and recommended.