Ethical Values and the Integrity of the Climate Change Regime

Hugh Breakey is a Research Fellow at Griffith University's Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Australia. His work stretches across the philosophical sub-disciplines of political theory, legal philosophy, normative ethics and applied philosophy. He is the author of Intellectual Liberty: Natural Rights and Intellectual Property (Ashgate). His works explore the ethical issues arising in such diverse fields as peacekeeping, institutional governance, climate change, sustainable tourism, private property, medicine and international law. Since 2013, Hugh has served as President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. Vesselin Popovski is Vice Dean and Executive Director of the Centre for United Nations Studies at Jindal Global University in India. He previously worked as Senior Academic Officer at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Director of the EU project `Legal Protection of Individual Rights in Russia' (2002-2004), lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK (1999-2002), Research Fellow, NATO Democratic Institutions Programme (1996-1998) and Bulgarian diplomat (1988-1996) serving in Sofia, New York and London. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the `Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies' and of the Editorial Boards of `International Studies Review' and of `Sustainability Science'. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored and edited over twenty books. Rowena Maguire is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Co-Chair of the International Law and Global Governance Research Program at the Queensland University of Technology. Rowena's principal research interests and publications concern international climate and forest regulation with a focus on equitable design and implementation.

Introductory Framework: Ethical values and the global carbon integrity system, Rowena Maguire, David M. Douglas, Vesselin Popovski and Hugh Breakey; A comprehensive framework for evaluating the integrity of the climate regime complex, Hugh Breakey and Tim Cadman. Part I Injecting Ethics into Governance Arrangements: Mapping the integrity of differential obligations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rowena Maguire; Stakeholder perspectives on the integrity of the climate regime, Tim Cadman; How to assure that nations consider ethics and justice in climate change policy formulation, Donald A. Brown; The context-integrity of the global carbon regime: the relevance and impact of the World Trade Organization, Felicity Deane. Part II Ethics in a Dynamic and Decentralized World: Top-down proposals for sharing the global climate policy effort fairly: lost in translation in a bottom-up world?, Jonathan Pickering; Reflecting climate change impacts in governance and integrity system design, Liese Coulter; Ethics and governance in climate change debate: the need for an institutional shift from nation-states to individuals, Yugank Goyal; Polycentric systems and the integrity approach, Anne Schwenkenbecher. Part III Social Norms in the Global Context: Eco v. ego: non-anthropocentric ethic in anthropocene epoch, Vesselin Popovski; Still in search of the good life, Charles Sampford; Two epistemic errors in the climate change debate, David Coady. Part IV Marshalling Human Rights to the Cause: The contribution of human rights to the effectiveness and integrity of the global carbon regime, Bridget Lewis; Mary Robinson’s Declaration of Climate Justice: climate change, human rights and fossil fuel divestment, Matthew Rimmer; The ethical responsibility of the loss and damage mechanism: a consideration of non-economic loss and human rights, Andrea C. Simonelli; Heating up climate change norms - lessons from human rights, Hugh Breakey. Bibliography; Index.