Just Transitions

OZSW Spring School 2024

In March 2024 a week-long OZSW course took place that discussed core concepts, approaches and current debates in the field of climate ethics. Invited speakers led seminars on mitigation duties, moral dilemmas within the IPCC, legitimate expectations, normative issues in climate economics, geo-engineering and normative uncertainty, animals and adaptation, climate litigation and responsibility, and future generations.

Contributors:

  • Bart van den Hurk. Professor in Climate and the Socio-ecological System at VU University Amsterdam; co-chair of Working Group II during the 7th IPCC cycle.
  • Behnam Taebi. Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics at Delft University of Technology.
  • Bernice Bovenkerk. Associate Professor of Environmental and Animal Ethics at Wageningen University.
  • Dominic Lenzi. Assistant Professor of Ethics at the University of Twente, working on Climate Justice and Negative Emissions Technologies.
  • Jan Willem Wieland. Associate Professor of Ethics at VU University Amsterdam.
  • Jeroen Hopster. Assistant Professor of Ethics at Utrecht University and senior researcher Esdit of Socially Disruptive Technologies.
  • Laura García-Portela. Assistant Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, working at the intersection between Climate Ethics and Climate Justice.
  • Michel Bourban. Assistant Professor in Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy at the University of Twente.
  • Tim Meijers. Assistant Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at Leiden University.