EDCC
Cooperating Institutions
- Rock Ethics Institute, Secretariat, Penn State University
- Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy
- Brazilian Forum on Climate Change
- Center for Ethics, University of Montana
- Centre for Applied Ethics, Cardiff University
- Centre for Global Ethics, Birmingham University
- Coordination of Post Graduate Programs in Engineering of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro–The Energy Planning Program
- EcoEquity
- Global Ecological Integrity Group
- IUCN Environmental Law Commission–Ethics Specialist Group
- International Virtual Institute of Global Change, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Munasinghe Institute for Development
- New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy
- Oxford Climate Policy
- Petrobras Research and Development Center (CENPES)
- Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
History
The Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change was launched at the 10th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that was held in early December of 2004 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The meeting was initiated by the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy and the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University in cooperation with the IUCN Environmental Law Commission-Ethics Working Group, the Center for Applied Ethics at Cardiff University, the Centre for Global Ethics at Birmingham University, the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, the Oxford University Climate Change Group, and EcoEquity.
The major outcome of this meeting was the Buenos Aires Declaration on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change.
As more fully set out in the declaration, the participants agreed that ethical inquiry into the ethical dimensions is an urgent concern for a number of reasons and that climate change raises several specific ethical issues.
EDCC white paper
Secretariat & Staff
The Secretariat for the program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change is the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University
- Nancy Tuana, Director, Rock Ethics Institute
- Donald A. Brown, Program Director, Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change; Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law, Penn State; and Director, Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy
In the News
WPSU Programs on Climate Change
Spring 2007
Pennsylvania Inside Out
View interviews with Christian Brady, Dean of Schreyer Honors College, and Nancy Tuana, Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, online at http://wpsu.org/insideout/.
Common Ground Lobby Talk
This Lobby Talk features Penn State's Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Richard Alley, and other guests who discuss the ethical dimensions of climate change and appropriate local and national responses to this urgent global problem.
United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-12)
November 6 - 17, 2006
Nairobi, Kenya
White Paper on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
"Ethics - The Missing Dimension" from Climate Negotiations - Nairobi - November '06 NGO Newsletter
"Report demands ethical dimension to climate talks" from New Scientist
"Ethical questions add new twist to climate-change debate" from Christian Science Monitor
"United States acting unethically on global warming says new report" from Mongabay.com
"Report: Include ethics in climate change talks" from The Standard (East Africa)
"Kenya: Kenya Appeals for Help By Rich Countries" from The East African Standard (Nairobi)
PDF version of 08/22/06 press release