Introduction to the Special Section:Integrating Development Ethics and Climate Change Ethics

摘要

Climate change ethics is an emerging field of applied ethics that examines the ethical implications entailed in the various climate change effects on people around the world, future generations, and ecosystems (Brown et al., 2004). Climate change ethics addresses questions such as: what responsibilities and obligations arise from climate change? Who has what kind of responsibilities or obligations to whom and for what reasons? Climate change ethics is particularly concerned with issues of inter- and intra-generational justice resulting from climate change, for example, what a just share of the burden would be in terms of adaptation costs, compensation for resulting damages and harm, and mitigation obligations and costs (Brown et al., 2004).