Ten Practical Policy Consequences of Acknowledging That Climate Change Is An...
I. Introduction. If climate change is understood as essentially an ethical problem, several practical consequences for policy formation follow. Yet it would appear there is widespread failure of those...
View ArticleThe Practical Importance of Seeing Climate Change as an Ethical Problem.
Why is practically important for policy-making to see climate change as an ethical problem? ClimateEthics begins with this entry using YouTube technology to explain the ethical dimensions of cliamte...
View ArticleChinese University Hosts First Conference in China on Climate Change Ethics.
Nanjing University of Science Information and Technology in collaboration with the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University organized the first conference on climate change ethics in China that...
View ArticleGoing Deeper On What Happened In Durban: An Ethical Critique of Durban Outcomes.
I. Introduction: What Is Missing In Reporting About The Durban Outcome? It has now been two weeks since negotiations at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) under the United Nations Framework...
View ArticleThe Practical Importance For Policy Of Ignoring The Ethical Dimensions of...
I. Introduction Here we examine the practical importance of identifying and expressly examining ethical issues that must be faced in policy formation as policy is debated and unfolds. What...
View ArticleEthical Issues with Relying on Natural Gas as a Solution to Climate Change
I. Introduction Interest in tackling climate change in the United States has increased somewhat recently in response to global CO2 atmospheric concentrations reaching 400 ppm,...
View ArticleUS Media Finally Acknowledges That Ethics and Justice Issues Are At the...
During the climate negotiations in Warsaw that concluded late Saturday, some of the most prominent US media institutions finally acknowledged that ethics and justice issues were at the very center...
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 ArticleVisuallizing Why US National and US State Governments’ GHG Reductions...
Several charts produced by the Global Commons Institute vividly demonstrate the woeful inadequacy of both the US federal government’s and US states’ commitments on climate change in light of the most...
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...
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