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Ethics and climate change: an introduction

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Climate ethics is an emerging field. This paper serves as a critical introductory overview. It focuses on five areas of discussion that are particularly relevant to substantive climate policy: the treatment of scientific uncertainty, responsibility for past emissions, the setting of mitigation targets, and the places of adaptation and geoengineering in the policy portfolio. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change

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  • Stephen M. Gardiner, 2010. "Ethics and climate change: an introduction," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 1(1), pages 54-66, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:wirecc:v:1:y:2010:i:1:p:54-66
    DOI: 10.1002/wcc.16
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    1. Greg Lusk, 2017. "The social utility of event attribution: liability, adaptation, and justice-based loss and damage," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 143(1), pages 201-212, July.
    2. Damian J. Bridge, 2022. "The ethics of climate change: a systematic literature review," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 62(2), pages 2651-2665, June.
    3. Rita Vasconcellos Oliveira, 2018. "Back to the Future: The Potential of Intergenerational Justice for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-16, February.
    4. Nien-Tsu Tuan & Corrinne Shaw, 2016. "Consideration of Ethics in Systemic Thinking," Systemic Practice and Action Research, Springer, vol. 29(1), pages 51-60, February.

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