Ethics and climate change: an introduction
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Climate ethics is an emerging field. This paper serves as a critical introductory overview. It focuses on five areas of discussion that are particularly relevant to substantive climate policy: the treatment of scientific uncertainty, responsibility for past emissions, the setting of mitigation targets, and the places of adaptation and geoengineering in the policy portfolio . 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs Clim Change 2010 1 54–66
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تاریخ انتشار 2009