It"s clear that global emissions need to be cut to avoid dangerous levels of climate change. But for many a bedrock of climate justice is the need for fairness in who cuts which emissions, taking into account both historical and present circumstances. "You cannot keep having your luxury emissions, and then point fingers at the person who"s having emissions just to survive," says Farhana Sultana, an associate professor of geography at Syracuse University in New York who teaches an undergraduate course on climate justice. "That"s just absolutely unfair and unjust."