The moral complexity of climate change and the need for a multidisciplinary perspective on climate ethics

Grasso, Marco; Markowitz, Ezra M.

doi:10.1007/s10584-014-1323-9

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“…It is important to note that these arguments and divisions do not merely reflect individual countries’ pragmatic assessments of their respective national circumstances, but also the multiplicity of philosophical perspectives on what global climate justice entails and how it can be achieved in practice. Perspectives have proliferated in wider academic and advocacy communities as scholars theorize how to apply these philosophical perspectives and achieve justice in the international climate regime …”

Section: How Has Justice Shaped the Preexisting Regime?mentioning

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“…It is evident that the normative architecture of the global order remains hostile to solidarist conceptions of justice . Positive sentiment was encapsulated in the ‘high ambition coalition’ in Paris, and promises of cooperation outside the international regime have given many observers reason to think there is greater momentum for cooperation.…”

Section: Can the International Regime Accommodate Changing National Cmentioning

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Climate justice and the international regime: before, during, and after Paris

Okereke

Coventry

2016

WIREs Climate Change

140

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With a focus on key themes and debates, this article aims to illustrate and assess how the interaction between justice and politics has shaped the international regime and defined the nature of the international agreement that was signed in COP21 Paris. The work demonstrates that despite the rise of neo‐conservatism and self‐interested power politics, questions of global distributive justice remain a central aspect of the international politics of climate change. However, while it is relatively easy to demonstrate that international climate politics is not beyond the reach of moral contestations, the assessment of exactly how much impact justice has on climate policies and the broader normative structures of the climate governance regime remains a very difficult task. As the world digests the Paris Agreement, it is vital that the current state of justice issues within the international climate change regime is comprehensively understood by scholars of climate justice and by academics and practitioners, not least because how these intractable issues of justice are dealt with (or not) will be a crucial factor in determining the effectiveness of the emerging climate regime. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:834–851. doi: 10.1002/wcc.419 This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice Policy and Governance > International Policy Framework

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Section: How Has Justice Shaped the Preexisting Regime?mentioning

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Section: Can the International Regime Accommodate Changing National Cmentioning

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Climate justice and the international regime: before, during, and after Paris

Okereke

Coventry

2016

WIREs Climate Change

140

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“…Firstly, legislative barriers need to be challenged to ensure that adaptation is kept as a "live" ongoing issue and that it is not constrained by static planning frameworks [93]. Secondly, many fundamental decisions on risk management are contingent on public attitudes to biodiversity and the natural environment, therefore having a very important ethical and philosophical dimension [94]. Most practitioners would acknowledge that maintaining current ecosystem composition and species is unrealistic, not least because there are limited resources for conservation.…”

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Comparative Risk Assessment to Inform Adaptation Priorities for the Natural Environment: Observations from the First UK Climate Change Risk Assessment

Brown

2015

Climate

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Risk assessment can potentially provide an objective framework to synthesise and prioritise climate change risks to inform adaptation policy. However, there are significant challenges in the application of comparative risk assessment procedures to climate change, particularly for the natural environment. These challenges are evaluated with particular reference to the first statutory Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) and evidence review procedures used to guide policy for the UK government. More progress was achieved on risk identification, screening and prioritisation compared to risk quantification. This was due to the inherent complexity and interdependence of ecological risks and their interaction with socio-economic drivers as well as a climate change. Robust strategies to manage risk were identified as those that coordinate organisational resources to enhance ecosystem resilience, and to accommodate inevitable change, rather than to meet specific species or habitats targets. The assessment also highlighted subjective and contextual components of risk appraisal including ethical issues regarding the level of human intervention in the natural environment and the proposed outcomes of any intervention. This suggests that goals for risk assessment need to be more clearly explicated and assumptions on tolerable risk declared as a primer for further dialogue on expectations for managed outcomes. Ecosystem-based adaptation may mean that traditional habitats and species conservation goals and existing regulatory frameworks no longer provide the best guide for long-term risk management thereby challenging the viability of some existing practices.

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“…Значајан део пажње је усмерен у правцу неколико општијих питања као што су: безбедносни аспекти климатских промена (Matthew, 2014;Wuebbles, Chitkara, and Matheny 2014), процене промена које ће изазвати климатске промене (Knight i Staneva, 2002), питање (не)правде у вези са климатским променама (McKinnon, 2015;Grasso, 2011;Grasso, 2007), постизање сагласности у вези са тзв. историјском одговорношћу за климатске промене (Friman, 2016), питање финансирања трошкова мера које би требало предузети у области спречавања климатских промена и адаптације на климатске промене, однос између развијених држава и држава у развоју, односно питање расподеле терета примене одговарајућих мера (Peel, 2016;Wang, Xiang, 2018), управљање ризицима услед догађаја са катастрофалним последицама и примена мера адаптације (Etkin, Medalye, Higuchi 2012), миграције становништва и климатске промене, одговорност за штете које настају услед (не) предузимања одговарајућих мера спречавања климатских промена (Mayer, 2018: 120), трансфер технологија (Dechezleprêtre, Glachant, Ménière, 2013), етички аспекти климатских промена (Grasso, Markowitz, 2015), итд.…”

Section: основни и други извори међународног права климатских променаunclassified

What are the boundaries of the law on climate change?

Todić¹

2019

Zb Pravnog fak Niš

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Редовни професор, Институт за међународну политику и привреду, Београд ГДЕ СУ ГРАНИЦЕ ПРАВА КЛИМАТСКИХ ПРОМЕНА? ** Апстракт: У раду се разматра став да право климатских промена обухвата изузетно широк круг питања и да границе ове области права није могуће прецизно одредити. У првом делу рада се испитују ширина и сложеност предмета регулисања међународног права климатских промена и, истовремено, указује на неке методолошке дилеме. За основу анализе се узимају одредбе међународних уговора у области климатских промена (Оквирна конвенција УН о промени климе, Кјото протокол и Париски споразум). Као критеријуми за утврђивање граница међународног права климатских промена узимају се значења кључних појмова. Разматра се и питање да ли се може говорити о праву на (одговарајућу) климу у контексту расправе о месту људских права у праву животне средине. Наглашава се и потреба сагледавања садржаја права и обавеза прописаних другим међународним уговорима који на различите начине могу бити релевантни за област климатских промена.

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The moral complexity of climate change and the need for a multidisciplinary perspective on climate ethics

Cited by 23 publications

References 21 publications

Climate justice and the international regime: before, during, and after Paris

Climate justice and the international regime: before, during, and after Paris

Comparative Risk Assessment to Inform Adaptation Priorities for the Natural Environment: Observations from the First UK Climate Change Risk Assessment

What are the boundaries of the law on climate change?

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