Abstrakt
Island states in Pacific Ocean such as Kiribati, Tuwalu or Marshall Islands are located just few meters above the ocean. The rising sea level may cause them to sink either entirely or to the extent that would make then uninhabitable.
Nearly a million citizens may be forced to flee their country which would subsequently lose its very defining feature - territory. Representatives of those countries, motivated by the imagination of undesirable future, primarily attempt to solve the situation by suggesting international treaty that would reduce emissions causing greenhouse effect.
The countries with rapidly developing industry oppose this solution, motivated by the imagination of future where their economic development would be significantly hindered by this reduction. The paper investigates how those chosen state actors in the case of sinking islands construct mutually interconnected imaginations of possible future and their perception of environmental justice in the speech acts.
Empirical analysis of accessible negotiations, statement records and speeches of official representatives of the chosen states outside and within the UN framework should specify how the actors discursively shift the meaning of environmental justice, exploiting its different perceptions (e.g. the commutative and distributive justice).