Global Justice and Climate Change

Conference to be held at the University of Oxford,
21-22 September 2007

Climate change raises many ethical questions. What obligations do persons owe future generations? Can cost benefit analysis capture all the ethically significant impacts of climate change? How should agents respond to risks and uncertainty? In addition to this, who should bear the burdens of dealing with global climate change? How should the right to emit carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) be distributed? What policies ought to be adopted to deal with climate change? Is geo-engineering ethically defensible? Is carbon trading just and, if so, under what conditions? Are some entitled for compensation or reparations? This conference aims to explore these and other ethical aspects of global climate change.

Speakers include

• Derek Bell (Politics, Newcastle University)
• Simon Caney (Politics, Oxford University)
• Simon Dietz (Geography and Environment, LSE)
• Dave Frame (ECI, Oxford University)
• Stephen Gardiner (Philosophy, Washington University)
• Cameron Hepburn (Economics, Oxford University) (provisional)
• Dale Jamieson (Philosophy, NYU)
• Richard Miller (Philosophy, Cornell University)
• Benito Mueller (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
• Avner de-Shalit (Politics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Henry Shue (Politics, Oxford University)

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford.

Registration form available from here.

Full Programme - (available soon)

How to get there

http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/location.asp

Please direct any queries to Simon Caney (simon.caney@googlemail.com)