ClimateEthics.org Identifies Ethical Issues Entailed by Copenhagen Negotiations

Abstract

Over the next few weeks Climate Ethics.org will be reporting on ethical issues at the center of the Copenhagen climate change negotiations as they unfold. Climate Ethics.org has already published several articles on these issues that have arisen as the world prepared for Copenhagen. See, for instance, Recommendations for Strengthening the Ethical Dimensions of the UNFCCC Negotiating Text Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Ethical Failures of National GHG Emissions Reduction Proposals Approaching Copenhagen, Uncertainty and REDD: an Ethical Approach to this Nagging Problem, Contraction & Convergence and Greenhouse Development Rights: A Critical Comparison Between Two Salient Climate-Ethical Concepts A few days before Copenhagen, Climate Ethics.org sees the following civilization challenging ethical issues raised by the Copenhagen Agenda. References to “non-papers” in the following are documents that have been developed by preparatory meetings leading up to Copenhagen. Climate Ethics.org will be expanding on this preliminary analysis as the Copenhagen agenda moves along in the next two weeks.