Climate Ethics

Climate change has been described as our time's "greatest moral challenge." While the causes and effects of climate change are now well understood, little attention has been paid to the ethical difficulties that climate change poses, or to how human cultures' values, beliefs, and ethics motivate the much behaviour that contribute to climate change. Nor has much thought been devoted to the efficacy or ineffectiveness of measures aimed at mitigating or adapting to climate change. Climate ethics is a field of study that investigates the ethical aspects of climate change (commonly known as global warming) and notions like climate justice. Many believe that ethical issues raised by human-induced climate change have not been adequately addressed in climate change policy debates or in the scientific and economic literature on climate change, and that as a result, ethical issues are being overlooked or obscured in climate negotiations, policies, and discussions. It has been noted that individuals most responsible for climate change are not necessarily the same people who are most vulnerable to its consequences. Climate justice and ecological justice ('eco justice') are terms that are used around the world and have been embraced by a number of organisations.

  • The Ethical Principles
  • Global Climate Change
  • Policies
  • Climate Justice
Committee Members
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Marte Gutierrez

Marte Gutierrez

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, United States
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Azzeddine Oudjehane

Azzeddine Oudjehane

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Gareth B Neighbour

Gareth B Neighbour

School of Engineering & Innovation The Open University, United Kingdom
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Vladimir Chigrinov

Vladimir Chigrinov

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
EGCCC 2023 Speakers
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Alexia Ross

Alexia Ross

CLASP, United States
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Maria Gabriela Meirelles

Maria Gabriela Meirelles

University of the Azores, Portugal
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Mercedes Burguillo Cuesta

Mercedes Burguillo Cuesta

Universidad de Alcala, Spain
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Zeljko Tomsic

Zeljko Tomsic

University of Zagreb , Croatia (Hrvatska)
Speaker at Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2023 - Chunlin Yao

Chunlin Yao

Tianjin Chengjian University, China

Submit your abstract Today

Watsapp