Ethics and climate change: an introduction

Abstract

Abstract 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