ClimateEthics.org aims to provide a quick response in the form of ethical comments on issues in contention in climate change policy formation around the world and provide insights on aspects of climate change science that raise ethical issues and thus are in need of attention by policymakers.
Working with scientists and economists when appropriate, ClimateEthics.org intends to follow developing climate change policy issues and stories and provide ethical comments about these issues, as well as commenting on the ethical dimensions of emerging scientific understanding of climate change.
ClimateEthics.org's goal is to provide robust identification of ethical issues, ethical analyses of selected issues, as well as identify issues about which deeper ethical analyses needs to be done. In developing the ethical comments for this site, ClimateEthics.org also works with others who are developing more detailed ethical analyses of climate change issues and occasionally summarize these longer ethical analyses when such work is particularly relevant to climate change policy formation.
This site is part of the Rock Ethics Institute’s initiative on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change (EDCC) and is linked to the Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change for which the Rock Ethics Institute serves as Secretariat. Amongst its activities, the EDCC maintains a climate change ethics bibliography.
ClimateEthics.org provides insight and useful content on the following subjects:
Adaptation and Responsibility for Damages Allocation Issues Atmospheric Targets Contraction and convergence Distributive and Intergenerational Justice Economics and Cost General Climate Ethics Human Rights - Universal Rights Independent Responsibility to Act Mitigation New Technologies Procedural Justice and Fair Process Scientific Uncertainty and Risk Trading Issues
