The Ethics of Climate Emergency

Description

While the year 2023 has been the warmest year ever recorded, 18 nations across the world as well as the European Union have now declared climate emergency. A declaration of climate emergency calls for a radical break from business-as-usual in climate policy. It stresses the urgency of action to avoid the catastrophic and potentially irreversible damage resulting from anthropogenic global warming. Yet a state of climate emergency raises crucial moral, political and institutional questions: Should the demands of urgency and the extent of potential harm alter procedures of political decision-making or frameworks of justification? Which courses of action are permissible to avoid the harms of global warming? Which institutions should be implemented? How should we understand responsibilities to remedy loss and damage or towards future generations in the climate emergency? How can we accommodate uncertainties inherent to climate science in deciding what should be done in the here and now? This one-day workshop will bring together researchers working on the above and related issues surrounding climate emergency.

15 November 2024
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Room 2i, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG)

Program 

10.00-10.15 WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS

10.15 – 11.15
Tracey Skillington (University College Cork)
“Addressing barriers to the implementation of an intergenerationally relevant climate justice" 
Chair: Angela Kallhoff (University of Vienna)

11.15 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK 

11.30 – 12.30 
Ross Mittiga (SOAS University of London)
“Justifying Climate Rebellion” (online)
Chair: Eva Liedauer (University of Vienna)

12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH

13.30 – 14.30 
Angela Kallhoff (University of Vienna)
"Decision Principles in the Climate Emergency”
Chair: Tuomo Tiisala (University of Vienna)

14.30 – 15.30 
Ali Emre Benli (University of Vienna)
“Climate Refugees and Climate Emergency”
Chair: Anni Räty (University of Vienna)

15.30 – 16.00 COFFEE BREAK 

16.00 – 17.00
Kathrin von Allmen (Harvard University)
“The Limits of 'Common but Differentiated Responsibilities” (online)
Chair: Ali Emre Benli (University of Vienna)

Period	15 Nov 2024
Event type	Seminar/Workshop
Location	Wien, AustriaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International