RE4GREEN consortium members Michel Bourban and Dominic Lenzi from the University of Twente participated in the 4TU.Ethics ESDiT conference 2024 titled “Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology”, organized by the 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology and the ESDiT program from 02-10-2024 to 04-10-2024 at the University of Twente and covered eight thematic tracks:
Track 1: AI – Intelligent Artifice?
Track 2: Bodies, Minds, & Subjects
Track 3: Concepts & Values
Track 4: Disruptive Technology & Health
Track 5: Geo-Technology & Bio-Technology
Track 6: Methodological Issues, Questions & Practices
Track 7: TechnoPolitics
Track 8: General – Philosophy and Ethics of Technology
RE4GREEN was represented with a paper presentation titled “Synergies and Tensions between Environmental Ethics, Climate Ethics, and Research Ethics: A Literature Review of Crosscutting Concepts” (Track 5: Geo-Technology & Bio-Technology).
“With this in mind, the objective of this literature review is to identify crosscutting concepts within environmental ethics, climate ethics, and research ethics, in the context of research and innovation. Mapping these concepts is important for the development of a research integrity and ethics framework that can adequately support research and innovation in service of a just green transition. There is a plurality of concepts within climate ethics and environmental ethics, some of which intersect with established concepts within research ethics, such as integrity, responsibility, harm, and rights. At the same time, there are also gaps between these sets of literature that have developed separately. This is the case of concepts within climate ethics and environmental ethics that do not have well-established analogous concepts within research ethics, but which are relevant for a just green transition, such as global justice, intergenerational justice, interspecies justice, and planetary justice.”
Read the full abstract here.