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Editorial For The Special Issue On It And Climate Change, Aditya Ghose, Helen Hasan, Trevor Spedding
Editorial For The Special Issue On It And Climate Change, Aditya Ghose, Helen Hasan, Trevor Spedding
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A Selection of Papers from the Carbon-Centric Computing National Research Summit held at the University of Wollongong, November 24, 2008
Going Beyond Climate Ethics: Virtuousness In Climate Change Initiatives, Mario Fernando
Going Beyond Climate Ethics: Virtuousness In Climate Change Initiatives, Mario Fernando
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This paper examines the place of virtuousness in climate change initiatives and presents a framework to assess the extent of virtuousness in mitigation and adaptation strategies. Although some argue that climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue, compared to the scientific literature on climate change, the body of climate ethics literature is more recent and considerably smaller. According to Posas (2007), since the first warning of climate change by an oceanographer in 1957, the most significant milestones in terms of introducing an ethical perspective to climate change was the Buenos Aires Declaration in December, 2004. At the same time, there …