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The climate crisis shapes and is shaped by inequalities. This nexus urges us to consider the justice questions arising from tackling the crisis. Against this background, the notion of "just transition" is gaining ground. Its main idea is that the socio-economic burden of climate measures requires corrective mechanisms to ensure that the climate transition is just. However, what "justice" means in this context and its consequences for legally protected rights to participate in decisions about the transition deserve more scrutiny. This article addresses these questions by exploring the conceptual understanding of justice and the space for citizens' participation within the EU Just Transition policy and legal framework. It argues that the EU Just Transition is merely built on a distributive understanding of justice and that this constrains participation. But procedures cannot be ignored if the EU is seriously committed to a just transition. The article suggests that a closer alignment with participatory environmental rights under the Aarhus Convention could strengthen the procedural justice credentials of the EU Just Transition framework while upholding its distributive approach.
EU Just Transition, public participation, climate transition, participatory environmental rights, procedural justice

AbstractGlobal experimentalist governance has emerged within and across a number of international regulatory regimes, but its potential contribution to the global governance of climate change remains largely unexplored. This article investigates the opportunities and barriers to developing global experimentalist governance approaches in the international regulation of climate change technologies, focusing on the recent framework for marine geoengineering under the London Dumping Protocol. It argues that, in the face of the limits of international law in dealing with uncertainty, multilevel distribution of power and regulatory disconnection, global experimentalist governance is attractive to catalyse adaptability, iterative learning, participation and cooperation. Such approach can help rethink the way international law deals with technological development, by emphasizing its problem-solving function.