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Read the following passage and answer the question based on it: It puts in sharp relief the hard question of how the burden is to be shared. A strong case, based on the issue of climate justice, places the main burden on the industrialised world. They have been the biggest per-capita producers of greenhouse gases throughout history, something that is directly associated with the scale of the climate crisis. Their prosperity was primarily developed through carbon-polluting industries, and those are the same conditions responsible for destroying the least-developed countries, which have contributed minimal input to the crisis. Hence, an ethical and equitable response requires that these industrialized countries take the lead with both financial and logistical assistance. What is meant by 'climate justice' as described in the passage?