Michel Bourban is going to give a very interesting talk entitled ‘Convergences and Gaps between Environmental Ethics, Climate Ethics, and Research Ethics: A Scoping Review’ at the Philosophy Section Tech Values Colloquium at the University of Twente on Thursday, March 13th. As an essential part of this presentation, he will present the results of a very important RE4GREEN deliverable entitled ‘Mapping of Environmental and Climate Ethics in the Context of the Sustainability Transition.
Abstract of the presentation:
“The relationship between research and innovation (R&I) and environmental change is a complex one. This is not only due to the socio-environmental impact of R&I, but also to the fact that some technological innovations have the potential to advance one environmental goal at the expense of another. This complexity, and the backdrop of the biodiversity and climate crises, make it clear that the natural environment needs to become a subject of concern in research ethics frameworks. This scoping review identifies cross-cutting concepts between the key topic areas of environmental ethics, environmental justice, climate ethics, climate justice, and research ethics and integrity. It also highlights an important gap in the literature between research ethics and the other key topic areas and points to the importance of updating existing research ethics frameworks to incorporate environmental concerns from an environmental ethics and climate ethics perspective. Finally, it reveals an over-representation of studies focused upon climate change, at the expense of other environmental issues, as well as an over-representation of research on the ethics and governance of geoengineering, even though this family of technologies is still in the early stages of research and development”.
