Youth articulations of climate change injustice are experiencing an unprecedented moment in the spotlight as, inspired by Greta Thunberg, young people around the world take to the streets demanding justice for their generation in the face of climate emergency. Formal opportunities for youth voices to be heard in environmental governance are slim, although the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) offers a rare opportunity for youth to share their perspectives as one of nine civil society constituencies: YOUNGO. Recent research in Global Environmental Change has called for empirical exploration of justice claims-making by different stakeholders to develop understanding of how justice is conceptualised and negotiated in climate change governance spaces. To date, climate justice claims from youth have not been explored in the academic literature. This paper draws upon rich, ethnographic, longitudinal data on the evolution of justice claims made by a group of youth participants in the UNFCCC to contribute to this empirical gap. In our research, a UK-based case study organisation and long-established member of YOUNGO was studied between 2015 and 2018, including observation of their participation at the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Conferences of the Parties. We find that youth participants first articulated injustices based on perceived future risks to their generation but, over time, switched to solidarity claims about injustices experienced by other groups in the present. Whilst laudable, this impedes their mandate as representatives of younger generations. We also make three theoretical contributions to environmental justice theory. First we expand participation justice theory to both the visible structures of participation (procedural justice) and the informal rules and discourses shaping participation (representation justice). Second we demonstrate the importance of both external and self-recognition for the articulation of justice claims. Third we clarify the relationship between power and justice claim-making, proposing that we must look beneath what is articulated to shed light on the exercise of ideological power that shapes the framing and claiming of justice in environmental governance spaces.

青年人对气候变化不公正现象的关注正经历着前所未有的时刻，在格雷塔·图恩伯格（Greta Thunberg）的启发下，面对气候紧急情况，世界各地的年轻人走上街头，要求为他们的世代伸张正义。尽管《联合国气候变化框架公约》（UNFCCC）提供了一个难得的机会，让青年分享他们作为九个公民社会选民之一的看法：YOUNGO，但在环境治理中听到青年声音的正式机会很少。全球环境变化的最新研究要求不同利益相关者对正义主张的建立进行实证探索，以加深对在气候变化治理空间中正义的概念化和谈判方式的理解。至今，在学术文献中尚未探讨青年对气候正义的主张。本文利用了丰富的，人种学的，纵向的数据，这些数据是由联合国气候变化框架公约（UNFCCC）的一群青年参与者为弥补这一经验差距而做出的司法主张演变的结果。在我们的研究中，研究了2015年至2018年间一家英国案例研究组织和YOUNGO的老会员，包括观察它们在缔约方第21、22和23次会议上的参与情况。我们发现，青年参与者首先根据感知到的对他们一代人的未来风险来阐明不公正现象，但随着时间的流逝，他们转向团结一致主张当前其他群体所经历的不公正现象。虽然值得称赞，但这阻碍了他们作为年轻一代代表的任务。我们还对环境正义理论做出了三点理论贡献。首先，我们将参与正义理论扩展到参与的可见结构（程序正义）和形成参与的非正式规则和话语（代表正义）。其次，我们证明了外部和自我认可对于表达正义诉求的重要性。第三，我们阐明了权力与正义主张的制定之间的关系，提出我们必须在明确阐述的内容之下，以阐明在环境治理空间中塑造正义框架和正义主张的意识形态权力的行使。