Retrospective Moral Intuitions on Equity Dominate the Warsaw Talks as the UN...
Editor’s note: The following entry is a report from Idil Boran who shares her views about the ethical issues in play in the Warsaw Climate Negotiations at the end of the first week....
View ArticleEthical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate...
I. Introduction This is the fourth paper in a series which is looking at the ethical issues entailed by the negotiation agenda at COP-19 in Warsaw. This paper concludes a series that has been...
View ArticleAn Ethical Analysis of Warsaw COP-19 Outcomes In Light of the Ethical...
I. Introduction. If climate change is a world challenging ethical and justice problem, what can we learn from the state of recognition of this fact from the recently concluded Warsaw climate...
View ArticleHas Discussion Of What “Equity” Requires Of Nations To Reduce GHG Emissions...
I. Introduction Has the leadership of international climate negotiations under the UNFCCC lost the desire to require nations to expressly examine what “equity” requires of them? Recently there has been...
View ArticleWidely Unrecognized Benefits of a Human Rights Approach as a Remedy for...
I. Introduction This is the first in a series that will rigorously examine the importance of understanding climate change as a human rights problem. There is a large and growing literature that...
View ArticleVisualizing How To Evaluate GHG Emissions Reductions Targets by National,...
This is the second entry which helps explain why US state ghg targets are woefully inadequate in light of the most recent science. The first entry included two charts provided by the Global Commons...
View ArticleWidely Unrecognized Benefits of a Human Rights Approach To Climate Change,...
I. Introduction This is the second in a series of articles looking at the potential of human rights law to reduce the threat of climate change. The first few entries in this series summarize the...
View ArticleWhy the US Academy of Science and the Royal Academy’s Easy To Understand...
The National Academy of Sciences and its British counterpart, the Royal Society, have published Climate Change: Evidence and Causes, a very easy to understand primer on the science of...
View ArticleFive Common Arguments Against Climate Change Policies That Can Only Be...
Ethics and climate has explained in numerous articles on this site why climate change policy raises civilization challenging ethical issues which have practical significance for policy-making. This...
View ArticleIPCC, Ethics, and Climate Change: Will IPCC’s Latest Report Transform How...
I. Introduction The international press has widely reported recently on some of the most dire conclusions of the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)....
View ArticleA Picture To Help Citizens Understand the Justice and Equity Issues That Must...
All nations, when they set national ghg emissions reductions targets, are implicitly taking a position on the following two civilization challenging ethical issues. The international community should...
View ArticleFour Tragic Omissions From US Media’s Coverge Of Obama’s Climate Proposals.
On Monday June 2, the US press began to shine a spotlight on the predictable political warfare breaking out over the Obama administration’s new proposed climate change rules. Yet,...
View ArticleImproving IPCC Working Group III’s Analysis on Climate Ethics and Equity,...
This is the second in a three part series examining the ethical and justice issues discussed by the IPCC Working Group III in its 5th Assessment Report (AR5) . In the first entry in this series we...
View ArticleA Call for Researchers on A Project On Deepening National Responses to...
This is a call for researchers in different nations to investigate how national debates about climate change policies have expressly considered or not ethics and justice issues in formulating climate...
View ArticleMay Any Nation Such as the United States or China Make Its Willingness to...
I. Introduction In the United States and in several developed countries including Australia and Canada, for instance, opponents of national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions...
View ArticleNew Very Helpful Website on Climate Equity
The World Resources Institute (WRI) has created a new very helpful website that allows visual comparisons of up to four nations at a time up and up to eight of 24 variables at a time relevant to...
View ArticleQuestions That Should Be Asked Of Politicians And Others Who Oppose National...
Climate change must be understood and responded to as a profound problem of global justice and ethics. This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting...
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