The site contains over 200 articles including 14 videos on ethical issues raised by climate change. The site seeks to help policymakers and interested citizens understand the ethical dimensions of climate change issues in contention in policy debates. The best way to find an analysis of specific issues is to use the “search” function on this website or to search the listed “categories” on the right-hand side of the home page. Also one may access specific articles under the following subjects in this index. Videos can be found under category “video” and under “video” in the following index.
INDEX
Adaptation and Climate Change Ethics
Two Climate Change Matters Move To Center Stage In Copenhagen With Profound Implications for Developed Nations: Ethics and Adaptation
Advertising and Climate Ethics
The Ethics Of “Clean Coal” Propaganda.
Are Fossil Fuel Industry Commercials Encouraging Americans to Engage In Unethical Climate Change Causing Behavior?
Cap and Trade
The Ethics of Carbon Cap and Trade Continued: Going Deeper On Our Original Analysis
Ethical Issues Raised By Carbon Trading
Coal and Climate Change
Claims That EPA CO2 Regulations Are A War On Coal Is Like Saying Laws Outlying Assault on Battery Are a War On Muggers.
China
Chinese University Hosts First Conference in China on Climate Change Ethics.
Cities and Climate Change
The Enormous Potential of Cities to Reduce GHG Emissions, 571 Strategies Adopted by 44 Cities Around the World
Climate Change Governance
On the Urgent Need for an “All Hands on Deck” Response to Climate Change Particularly in the United States As the Trump Administration Prepares to Take Over the Machinery of the US Government
Climate Change Impacts
Why Ethics Requires Acknowledging Links Between Tornadoes and Climate Change Despite Scientific Uncertainty.
Stopping the Worst Environmental Disaster?: An Ethical and Scientific Comparison of the Gulf Oil Spill and Climate Change.
Disinformation Campaign and Climate Ethics
Climate Change Disinformation Comes to Pennsylvania
The Enormous Damage Caused to the World By the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Which Began in the United States and Spread To Other Countries
Why the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Cannot be Excused As an Exercise in Free Speech but Should be Understood as Morally Reprehensible Disinformation.
Obama Implicitly Acknowledges the Enormous Damage Caused By the Fossil Fuel Corporate Funded Climate Change Disinformation Campaign and Its Political Mercenaries
Crimes Against Humanity; The Genocidal Campaign of the Climate Change Contrarians.
New Study Concludes That Tracking Funding Of The Ethically Abhorrent Climate Disinformation Campaign Is Now Impossible.
The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: What Kind Of Crime Against Humanity, Tort, Human Rights Violation, Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing Is It? Part Two: Is The Disinformation Campaign a Human Rights Violation Or A Special Kind of Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing ?
The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: What Kind Of Crime Against Humanity, Tort, Human Rights Violation, Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing Is It? Part One: Is The Disinformation Campaign a Crime Against Humanity or A Civil Tort?
The Grave US Media Failure to Report On The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The Ethical Abhorrence of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 3
The Ethical Abhorrence of The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 2
Why The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is So Ethically Abhorrent
Is Higher Education Failing to Adequately Educate Civil Society About the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign?
Disinformation, Social Stability, and Moral Outrage
Irresponsible Skepticism: Lessons Learned From the Climate Disinformation Campaign
Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign’s Tactics: (1) Think Tanks, (2) PR Campaigns, (3) Astroturf Groups, and (4) Cyber-Bullying Attacks.
Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign’s Tactics: (1) Reckless Disregard for the Truth, (2) Focusing On Unknowns While Ignoring Knowns, (3) Specious Claims of “Bad” Science, and (4) Front Groups.
Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Introduction to A Series
An Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Is This A New Kind of Assault on Humanity?
A New Kind of Crime Against Humanity?: The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation Campaign On Climate Change
Duties of Nations To Act on Climate Change
What Americans Urgently Need to Understand About Climate Change In Light of an Alarming New Report Published By US Academy of Sciences
New Paper Describes Step By Step Procedures that Nations Should Follow to Determine, Explain, and Evaluate their GHG Emissions Reduction Commitments Under the Paris Agreement
The Moral Outrageousness of Trump’s Decision on the Paris Agreement
Issues the Media has Poorly Dealt With About the Paris Climate Deal: The Enormity and Urgency of the Climate Threat that has been Caused by Political Opposition to Climate Policies
Lessons Learned From Research on How 23 Nations Actually Considered Or Ignored Ethics and Justice in Formulating National Climate Commitments
Why ethics requires that Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) identify: (1) tonnes of CO2eq emissions reduced rather than a percent of reductions from a baseline year, (b) the temperature limit and associated carbon budget the INDC is seeking to achieve, (c) the equity principles that the nation relied on to assure the justice of its INDC, and (d) For Annex 1 countries, ghg emissions in 1990, the common baseline year.
The Enormous Significance For Law and Ethics Of a Dutch Court’s Order Requiring the Netherlands To Reduce Its GHG Emissions by 25% by 2020.
Questions That Should Be Asked Of Politicians And Others Who Oppose National Action On Climate Change On The Basis Of Scientific Uncertainty Or Unacceptable Cost To The Economy Given That Climate Change Is A Profound Global Justice And Ethical Problem
May Any Nation Such as the United States or China Make Its Willingness to Reduce Its GHG Emissions Contingent On What Other Nations Do?
Equity Remains At Center of Bonn Climate Change Talks.
On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To What Equity Requires of Them In Their Responses to Climate Change.
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Ethical Issues Raised By US Blue Dog Democratic Senators’ Opposition to Climate Legislation – When May a Nation Make Domestic GHG Reduction Commitments Contingent on Other Nations’ Actions
Economics and Climate Change Ethics
Ethical Issues with Relying on Pricing Carbon as a Policy Response to Climate Change.
“Rebirth Of the Sacred”: Responses to the Dysfunctional Economic and Political Systems Responsible For Global Environmental Crises
New York Times Article Misleads on The Moral Basis for Climate Change Policies.
Free Markets, Externalities, and A Question of Integrity
Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies.
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Made In Opposition to Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Value The Harms That Will Be Caused by Doing Nothing.
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: Increased Costs May Not Justify Human Rights Violations
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Recognize Duties To Non-citizens
What Needs To Be Done To Assure That Ethical Principles Guide Climate Change Policy Making: A Look At The Bridge at The End OF The World
The Stern Report Acknowledges Certain Potential Ethical Issues Created By Standard Economic Analyses Of Climate Change Policies
Educating Citizens About Climate Change
Equity Frameworks
New Very Helpful Website on Climate Equity
10 Reasons Why “Contraction and Convergence” Is Still The Most Preferable Equity Framework for Allocating National GHG Targets
General Climate Ethics
Madrid COP 24 Event on the Urgency of and Getting Traction for Ethical Principles to Guide National Responses to Climate Change
What Climate Activists and the Media Should Learn from Greta Thunberg’s September 23 UN Speech
UNESCO Examines the Urgency of and Strategy for Getting Traction for Ethical Guidance in Climate Change Policy Formation at Bangkok Program
The US Government Behaving Badly at the Katowice, COP24,Climate Negotiations
Why “Shaming” Is An Important Tool That Could Lead to Climate Change Action In Paris And Beyond
Five Common Arguments Against Climate Change Policies That Can Only Be Effectively Responded To On Ethical Grounds
Degrees of Responsibility for Climate Catastrophe
New Web Site Enables Climate Policy Makers To Fulfill Their Ethical Responsibility to Understand The Significance of Policy Choices
On The Practical Need To Examine Climate Change Policy Issues Through An Ethical Lens
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Qatar: The Waiting for the United States Continues
A Video: Even Monkeys Get Climate Change Justice. Why Don’t Governments and the Press?
Qatar: Questions That Governments Should Be Asked About Their Positions on Equity and Justice.
Qatar: Linking Increasing the Ambitiousness Of National Emissions Reductions Commitments To Equitable Responsibilities
How To Make Ethical Principles More Influential In Climate Change Policy Formation: A New Book, Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm, Climate Change Ethics
The Practical Importance For Policy Of Ignoring The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
Introduction to Climate Ethics, Video- Part Two
Why Climate Change Must Be Seen Essentially An Ethical Problem and What Practical Differences Follow From This.
ClimateEthics Analysis Moves to Widener University School of Law As EthicsandClimate.org
ClimateEthics Moves to Widener University School of Law as Ethicsandclimate.org
The Practical Importance of Seeing Climate Change as an Ethical Problem.
US Signers Of US Climate Ethics Statement Statement Wanted
The Practical Significance of US Congressman Waxman’s Acknowledgment That Climate Change Is A Moral Issue
On The Moral Imperatives Of Speaking Publicly About the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change-And How It Must Be Done.
Are Ethical Arguments for Climate Change Action Weaker Than Self-Interest Based Arguments? Why Taking Ethical Arguments Off the Table Is Like A Soccer Team Unilaterally Taking The Goalie Out of the Net.
Twenty Ethical Questions that the US Press Should Ask Opponents of Climate Change Policies.
Ten Reasons Why Examining Climate Change Policy Controversies Through an Ethical Lens Is A Practical Imperative.
Understanding Climate Change Ethics as a Subset of Global Ethics
Why Global Environmental Problems Entail Ethical Obligations
A New Website In Response to Recent Report On the Urgency of Seeing Climate Change as a Moral Concern.
Germany
Ethics and German Energy Policy- Energy Policy as Main Road to Sustainability?
Higher Education and Climate Ethics
Is Higher Education Failing to Adequately Educate Civil Society About the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign?
Universities And The Need To Address Global Climate Change Across Disciplines and Programs
Human Rights and Climate Change
Under Appreciated Uses of Human Rights Law As A Remedy for Climate Change: A Comprehensive Series.
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: Increased Costs May Not Justify Human Rights Violations
Individual Responsibility For Climate Change
Ethical Obligations of States, Regional and Local Governments, Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change and Ethics
New Evidence That Climate Change Poses a Much Greater Threat to Humanity Than Recently Understood Because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been Systematically Underestimating Climate Change Risks
A Critical Look at IPCC Working Group III’s Analyses of Climate Ethics and Equity, Second In A Series.
IPCC, Ethics, and Climate Change: Will IPCC’s Latest Report Transform How National Climate Change Policies Are Justified?
International Climate Regime
An American at the Bonn Climate Change Negotiations.
Reflections on the Marrakech Climate Negotiations In Light of the American Election
At the UN Climate Talks, Thinking About Equity May Require Understanding the Conditions of Mutual Trust
The Progression of Multilateral Talks on Climate Change and the Challenge of “Equity”: Notes from the UN Climate Conference in Bonn, June 2014
Has Discussion Of What “Equity” Requires Of Nations To Reduce GHG Emissions Disappeared From Climate Negotiations? If So, What Should Be Done About It?
An Ethical Analysis of Warsaw COP-19 Outcomes In Light of the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change.
Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations-Issue 3, Financing Adaptation and Climate Change Responses in Vulnerable Developing Counties and Issue 4, Ethical Responsibilities for Loss and Damages.
Retrospective Moral Intuitions on Equity Dominate the Warsaw Talks as the UN Climate Conference Transitions into its Second Week.
The Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations-Issue 2, Equity and National GHG Emissions Commitments in the Medium- and Long Term
The Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Change Negotiations-Issue 1, Equity and National GHG Emissions Reductions Commitments in the Short-Term
Ethical and Justice Issues In Contention At the Warsaw Climate Negotiations-The First In A Series Of Reports.
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Qatar: The Waiting for the United States Continues
Qatar: Questions That Governments Should Be Asked About Their Positions on Equity and Justice.
Qatar: Linking Increasing the Ambitiousness Of National Emissions Reductions Commitments To Equitable Responsibilities
Qatar Climate Change Negotiations: An Open Letter To US President Obama From the World’s Poorest Nations.
Going Deeper On What Happened In Durban: An Ethical Critique of Durban Outcomes.
An Ethical Analysis of the Cancun Climate Negotiations Outcome.
A Comprehensive Ethical Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord.
Two Climate Change Matters Move To Center Stage In Copenhagen With Profound Implications for Developed Nations: Ethics and Adaptation
The Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change Issues Report to Press at COP-15
ClimateEthics.org Identifies Ethical Issues Entailed by Copenhagen Negotiations
Ethical Failures of National GHG Emissions Reduction Proposals Approaching Copenhagen
Minimum Ethical Criteria For All Post-Kyoto Regime Proposals: What Does Ethics Require of A Copenhagen Outcome
Collaborative Program on Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change Calls for Ethical Leadership in Poznan, Poland Climate Change Negotiations
Climate Ethics in Bali – the Urgency of Seeing Climate Change as an Ethical andNJustice Concern
Nations Must Follow Justice In Climate Change Negotiations
Natural Gas
Natural Gas: Now A Bridge to Catastrophe
Politics and Climate Ethics
Responding to the Nomination for US Secretary of State the CEO of Exxon, a Company Which Funded the Morally Reprehensible Climate Change Disinformation Campaign and Politicians Who Are Climate Change Deniers
“What Is Wrong Climate Politics And How to Fix It” A Review of a New Book By Paul Harris.
An Ethical Analysis of Obama’s Climate Speech, the Adverse Political Reaction to It, and the Media Response.
A video: Why Politicians May Not Rely On Their Own Uninformed Opinion On Climate Change Science.
Why Politicians May Not Ethically Rely on Their Own Uninformed Opinion About Climate Science and 10 Questions That The Press Should Ask Politicians About Climate Science In Light of This Responsibility.
Qatar Climate Change Negotiations: An Open Letter To US President Obama From the World’s Poorest Nations.
An Ethical Analysis of Mitt Romney’s Climate Change Views-Part Two
An Ethical Analysis Of US Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s Views On Climate Change
The Silence of US President Obama on Climate Change-A Serious Ethical Lapse?
Ethical Problems With some of the Obama Team’s Approach to Climate Change?
The Practical Significance of US Congressman Waxman’s Achnowledgement That Climate Change Is A Moral Issue
Pope’s Encyclical
What Can Non-Catholics and Nonbelievers Learn From the Pope’s Encyclical About the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change?
If Pope Francis is Right that Climate Change is a Moral Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against Climate Policies Based on the Failure of Other Countries Like China to Act?
If Pope Francis is Right that Climate Change is a Moral Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against Climate Policies Based on Unacceptable National Costs?
If Pope Francis is Right that Climate Change is a Moral Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against Climate Policies Based on Scientific Uncertainty?
Research Project
A Call for Researchers on A Project On Deepening National Responses to Climate Change On The Basis of Ethics and Justice
Sociological Insights About Climate Change
What Advocates of Strong Government Action on Climate Change Should Learn from Sociology
Insights from New Book on Sociology and Climate Change: Why Has an Understanding of the Sociological Causes of the Failure of Government to Respond to Climate Change and the Deep Ethical Problems with Most Arguments Against Climate Policies Been Missing from Most Climate Change Literature?
Insights from a New Book on Sociology and Climate Change: The Heinous Denial Countermovement
Scientific Uncertainty and Climate Ethics
Why the US Academy of Science’s Easy To Understand Report On Climate Change Science Has Ethical Significance
IPCC’s New Report: Does It Make any Ethical Difference that Confidence Levels About Human Causation Have Increased?
On Confusing Two Roles of Science and Their Relation to Ethics.
Why Ethics Requires Acknowledging Links Between Tornadoes and Climate Change Despite Scientific Uncertainty.
The US Academy of Sciences’ Reports On Climate Change and The US Moral Climate Change Failure.
Ethical Issues Raised by the Work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Report On The Bali Workshop (COP-13)
New York Times Krugman Claims That US Congressional Hearings Are A Moral Failure: The US Congress and The Ethics of Willful Ignorance.
The Worst Ethical Scandal In the US Congress: Climate Change?
Twenty Ethical Questions that the US Press Should Ask Opponents of Climate Change Policies.
The Strong Scottish Moral Leadership On Climate Change Compared To The Absence Of Any Acknowledged Ethical Duty In The US Debate.
Ethical Issues Raised By US Blue Dog Democratic Senators’ Opposition to Climate Legislation – When May a Nation Make Domestic GHG Reduction Commitments Contingent on Other Nations’ Actions
Solutions To Climate Change Including Geo-Engineering
New Book Identifies 1000 Tools To Decarbonize the US Economy
Ethical Issues With Relying On Natural Gas As A Solution to Climate Change
Wind Power Ethics
The Ethics of Allocating Public Research Funds for Carbon Capture and Storage
Ethical Issues Raised by Waiting for Geological Carbon Storage
Scotland
The Strong Scottish Moral Leadership On Climate Change Compared To The Absence Of Any Acknowledged Ethical Duty In The US Debate.
States and Climate Change
Visualizing How To Evaluate GHG Emissions Reductions Targets by National, State, ane Regional Governments, Part II
Visualizing Why US Federal and US State Governments’ GHG Emissions Reduction Commitments Are Woefully Inadequate In Light of Recent Science.
Why US States Have A Duty To Reduce Their Emissions to Their Fair Share of Safe Global Emissions: The Case of Pennsylvania.
Sustainability Ethics
Sustainability and Property Rights
An Opportunity to Learn About Links Between Global Governance and Environmental Ethics
The Agenda 21 Disinformation Campaign In the United States: An Ethical Critique Of An Attack on Sustainability
New Book Describes Ways To Accelerate US Transition To Sustainability-Including A Greater Emphasis On Ethics.
Agenda 21: A Guide for the Perplexed: Disinformation Campaign About Sustainable Development Emerges In the United States
Do US GHG Emissions Commitments Pass Ethical Scrutiny?
Sunita Narain: Change of climate in the US
Why Politicians May Not Ethically Rely on Their Own Uninformed Opinion About Climate Science and 10 Questions That The Press Should Ask Politicians About Climate Science In Light of This Responsibility.
The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of the Climate Change Threat.
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Qatar: The Waiting for the United States Continues
Qatar Climate Change Negotiations: An Open Letter To US President Obama From the World’s Poorest Nations.
How US Climate Change Law Must Be Reconciled With Existing International Law and Ethical Obligations.
New York Times Krugman Claims That US Congressional Hearings Are A Moral Failure: The US Congress and The Ethics of Willful Ignorance.
The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms.
The Worst Ethical Scandal In the US Congress: Climate Change?
The Strong Scottish Moral Leadership On Climate Change Compared To The Absence Of Any Acknowledged Ethical Duty In The US Debate.
US Media And Climate Change.
Reflections on the Failed US Media Coverage of COP 21 in Paris
US Media’s Failure to Acknowledge the Most Important Implications of the Pope’s Encyclical
Four Tragic Omissions From US Media’s Coverage Of Obama’s Climate Proposals. –
US Media Fails to Educate The Public About Links Between Greater Natural Gas Use and Climate Change
A video: Why Politicians May Not Rely On Their Own Uninformed Opinion On Climate Change Science.
Why Politicians May Not Ethically Rely on Their Own Uninformed Opinion About Climate Science and 10 Questions That The Press Should Ask Politicians About Climate Science In Light of This Responsibility.
The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of the Climate Change Threat.
A Video: Even Monkeys Get Climate Change Justice. Why Don’t Governments and the Press?
An Ethical Examination of How The US Press Has Covered Links Between Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change
Will Hurricane Sandy Remedy The US Media’s Grave Failures To Adequately Cover Climate Change?
The Grave US Media Failure to Report On The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The Grave US Media Failure to Communicate About The Consistent Barrier That The United States Has Been To Finding A Global Solution to Climate Change.
The US Media’s Grave Failure To Communicate The Significance of Understanding Climate Change as A Civilization Challenging Ethical Issue.
The US Media’s Grave Communication Failure On The Magnitude Of GHG Emissions Reductions Necessary To Prevent Dangerous Climate Change
In Praise and Criticism of the PBS Frontline Program, Climate of Doubt
Five Grave Communications Failures of the US Media On Climate Change-The Failure To Communicate The Strength of The Scientific Consensus
Five Grave Communications Failures of The US Media On Climate Change
The Crucial Missing Element in Media Coverage of the US Climate Change Debate: the Ethical Duty to Reduce GHG Emissions
Video
How to ask questions of opponents of climate change policies to expose ethical problems with cost and scientific uncertainty arguments
A video: Questions that Should be Asked of Those Who Oppose Climate Change Policies on the Basis of Costs, Job Loss, or Decreases in GDP To Expose the Moral and Ethical Problems with these Arguments
Three Videos on Why the Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is Neither an Exercise of Free Speech nor Responsible Scientific Skepticism and Should Be Understood as Some Kind of New Crime Against Humanity
A video: Why Politicians May Not Rely On Their Own Uninformed Opinion On Climate Change Science.
A short video : Can The United States Justify Its Unwillingness to Reduce Its GHG Emissions on Economic Interest Alone?
A Video: Even Monkeys Get Climate Change Justice. Why Don’t Governments and the Press?
Five Grave Communications Failures of The US Media On Climate Change
An Ethical Analysis of Mitt Romney’s Climate Change Views-Part Two
An Ethical Analysis Of US Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s Views On Climate Change
The Ethical Abhorrence of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 3
The Ethical Abhorrence of The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 2
Introduction to Climate Ethics, Video- Part Two
Introduction to Climate Ethics, Video Part One
Why The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is So Ethically Abhorrent
Why Climate Change Must Be Seen Essentially An Ethical Problem and What Practical Differences Follow From This.
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