ABSTRACT

This paper discusses two approaches to climate ethics for practical reflection and decision-making in concrete local climate change governance. After a brief review of the main conceptual frameworks in climate ethics research, we show that none of these leading approaches is sufficiently context specific and pluralistic to provide guidance appropriate for concrete local climate governance. As alternatives, we present principlism as a methodology of mid-level principles and environmental pragmatism as an ethical approach. We argue that the two methodologies of principlism and pragmatism offer a new pluralistic framework that allows real-world conditions and contexts to be properly integrated into ethical analysis and decision-making in climate governance.

摘要

本文讨论了气候伦理学的两种方法，以便在具体的地方气候变化治理中进行实际反思和决策。在对气候伦理研究的主要概念框架进行简要回顾后，我们发现这些主要方法都不够具体和多元化，无法为具体的地方气候治理提供适当的指导。作为替代方案，我们将原则主义作为中层原则的方法论，将环境实用主义作为道德方法。我们认为，原则主义和实用主义两种方法论提供了一个新的多元化框架，使现实世界的条件和背景能够适当地融入气候治理的伦理分析和决策中。