The award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore has helped to refocus the world's attention on global climate change. Moving from arguments of concentration on mitigation of climate change to a more realistic adaptation to the expected changes, this collection of articles explores how poor countries could argue the social justice aspects of the steps they need to undertake to finance the adaptation. The developing countries may well bear the brunt of the impacts of climate change – they are the most vulnerable from a climatic point of view, from a financial and technological point of view, and with fragile production systems. But the developing countries also possess natural resources that if suitably mobilized may greatly contribute to the global efforts not only to adapt to but also mitigate climate change. The book contains a wide variety of arguments for seeing efforts on climate change in the context of social justice and not only technology. It is a most useful supplement to the current debate and provides pointers to mechanisms that may unite the industrialized and the developing countries as international conventions on climate change will be revisited in the coming years.