Common but differentiated responsibilities: agency in climate justice - Ivo Wallimann-Helmer

In the 3rd Responsible City Lunch Lecture of the spring 2025 series, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer (Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg) will discuss :

Common but differentiated responsibilities: agency in climate justice

Join us online this Wednesday 30.04.2025, 12h30-13h30
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Abstract:
Ethical challenges concerning climate change most often involve two issues that are tightly connected. The first is considerations about the just distribution of entitlements and burdens, and the second concerns the fair differentiation of responsibilities. The distribution of entitlements and burdens can be assessed by relying on one or combinations of principles of climate justice. Although the fairness of any differentiation of responsibilities must rely on these principles of justice, the applicability of these principles and the demands they make strongly depend on the agents bearing the responsibility and what policy domains are at issue. Not all agents can be ascribed the same responsibilities, and not all measures for climate action can or should be realized by the same differentiation of responsibilities.