This course is about ethical issues related to climate change such as various ethical theories and the question about international and inter-generational allocation among other things.
The following topics are relevant for discussion in lectures and student groups:
- ethical perspectives of climate change
- ethical perspectives of sustainability, or lack of sustainability, in general.
- ethics and the precautionary principle
- research & science ethics
- ethics of science-policy interactions
- ethics and geoengineering
- climate science and social values
- various ethical cases/questions