All pages with keywords: ethics
Public lecture | Climate ethics: embracing justice, avoiding extortion
LSE Deparment of Government and Grantham Research Institute public lecture, introduced and chaired by Dr Kai Spiekermann Attendance at this event is by registration only, if you would like to … read more »
Ethics, equity and the economics of climate change. Paper 2: economics and politics
Both intergenerational and intratemporal equity are central to the examination of policy towards climate change. However, many discussions of intergenerational issues have been marred by serious … read more »
Ethics, equity and the economics of climate change. Paper 1: science and philosophy
This paper examines a broad range of ethical perspectives and principles relevant to the analysis of issues raised by the science of climate change and explores … read more »
Individual consumers and climate change: searching for a new moral compass
Individuals and households are responsible for about one third of all carbon emissions in the UK and the US, and yet, there has been limited policy … read more »
Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective?
Cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gas emissions are an important part of the climate change policies of the EU, Japan, New Zealand, among others, as well as China (soon) and … read more »
From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives
The aim of this paper is to consider, from an ethical point of view, the role that economics should play in evaluating climate change strategies. Economics has … read more »
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