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Climate Activism and Harming Innocents

The project focuses on the ethical challenges faced by political agents who pursue climate change mitigation. On the one hand, climate change threatens hundreds of millions of human lives. On the other hand, political agents who want to prevent such a catastrophe may need to resort, in despair, to political means that seriously harm innocents.

The project addresses three dilemmatic political action scenarios:

  • Green political parties who enter coalition agreements and that need to compromise on morally serious goals for the sake of concessions on climate policy.
  • Corporations that may need to resort to undemocratic forms of influence in policymaking in order to push for ambitious climate policy.
  • Climate activists who may need to resort to forms of direct action harming property in order to prevent climate deaths.

Visit climatepoliticalaction.uk for more information and the letest news on this project.

Principal investigator

Portrait photo of Francisco Garcia-Gibson

Dr. Francisco Garcia-Gibson
Research Fellow

 

 

Project details

Project duration: 2 years

Project funder: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme

Events and Conferences

Climate Agents and Rights Enforcement
3 March 2022
LSE Government Online Event


Climate Agents of Change Workshop
25 February 2022
LSE Government Workshop

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