PANEL 22 / CLIMATE POLICY AND JUSTICE
CONVENORS: PIERRE ANDRÉ and FAUSTO CORVINO (UCLouvain)
All enquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected] and [email protected].
To avoid the immense risks that climate change poses to human and non-humans, global greenhouse gas emissions must be brought to net zero as soon as possible and adaptation and compensation policies must also be put in place. We have a diverse portfolio of climate policies at our disposal, including carbon pricing, public investment, regulation based on standards and norms, carbon dioxide removal, and research and development into breakthrough green technologies. The choice of which climate policies to implement or prioritise raises many pressing questions of justice. Let us mention four of them. First: how should the costs and benefits of these climate policies be shared? Second: are the risks associated with some of these policies justifiable and why? Third: should climate policies be concerned with rectifying past injustices such as historical emissions and colonialism? Fourth: should the expectations of those who will be made worse off as a result of climate policies be considered as legitimate and be taken into account?
This panel aims to invite climate philosophers to think broadly about these normative questions, focusing on the following climate policies:
• Carbon pricing
• Carbon dioxide removal
• Loss and damage compensation
• Adaptation policies
• Standards and norms
• Solar geoengineering
• Investment in technology innovation
• International climate policy
All enquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected] and [email protected].
To avoid the immense risks that climate change poses to human and non-humans, global greenhouse gas emissions must be brought to net zero as soon as possible and adaptation and compensation policies must also be put in place. We have a diverse portfolio of climate policies at our disposal, including carbon pricing, public investment, regulation based on standards and norms, carbon dioxide removal, and research and development into breakthrough green technologies. The choice of which climate policies to implement or prioritise raises many pressing questions of justice. Let us mention four of them. First: how should the costs and benefits of these climate policies be shared? Second: are the risks associated with some of these policies justifiable and why? Third: should climate policies be concerned with rectifying past injustices such as historical emissions and colonialism? Fourth: should the expectations of those who will be made worse off as a result of climate policies be considered as legitimate and be taken into account?
This panel aims to invite climate philosophers to think broadly about these normative questions, focusing on the following climate policies:
• Carbon pricing
• Carbon dioxide removal
• Loss and damage compensation
• Adaptation policies
• Standards and norms
• Solar geoengineering
• Investment in technology innovation
• International climate policy
