Workshop

Climate ethics and future generations

Date: 27 - 30 September 2018
Time: 09:00–18:00

Workshop within the research project "Climate ethics and future generations", 27–29 September.
Audience members admitted by invitation only.

1st Day – 27th September

8:45 – 9:15       Coffee/Breakfast

9.15 – 10.00     Introduction

10.00 – 10.30   Gustaf Arrhenius (IF) "Risk, Rights, Democracy, Demography, and Intuitions"

10.30 – 11.00    Krister Bykvist (IF, SU) "Uncertainty, paradoxes, and climate action"

11.00 – 11.30    Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.00    Stephane Zuber (Paris School of Economics) "Population-Adjusted Egalitarianism and resource management" 

12.00 – 13.00    Lunch

13.00 – 13.30    Coffee Break

13.30 – 14.00    Geoffrey Brennan (Australian National University) "Thoughts on the Climate ethics project"

14.00 – 14.30    Erik Carlson (Uppsala university) "The total view and the repugnant conclusion"

14.30 – 15.00    Melinda Roberts (College of New Jersey) "Does Existence Make Things Better?"

15.00 – 15.30    Coffee Break

15.30 – 16.00    Ralf Bader (IF, Oxford) "Person-affecting principles and Population Ethics"

16.00 – 16.30     Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (IF, University of Warwick) "Scanlon’s Contractualism and Future Generations"

16.30 – 17.30     Roundtable discussion

18.30                  Dinner

2nd Day – 28th September

9.30 – 10.00      Coffee

10.00 – 10.30    Göran Duus-Otterström (IF, University of Aahus) "Burden-Sharing Justice"

10.30 – 11.00     Ed Page (IF, University of Warwick) "Compensation for loss and damage due to climate change"

11.00 – 11.30    Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.00    Katharina Berndt-Rasmussen (IF) "Discrimination, Democracy, and Future Generations"

12.00 – 13.00    Lunch

13.00 – 13.30    Coffee Break

13.30 – 14.00    Julia Mosquera (IF), Martin Kolk (IF, Stockholm university), Tim Campbell (IF) "Pronatalist Policies and Future Generations"

14.00 – 14.30    Karin Bäckstrand (IF, Stockholm university) "Climate Transition, Governance and Democracy"

14.30 – 15.00    Kimberly Nicholas (Lund unversity) "A Better Climate Life"

15.00 – 15.30    Coffee Break

15.30 – 16.00    Kirsti Jylhä (IF) "Psychological Obstacles to Climate Change Mitigation"

16.00 – 16.30    Malcolm Fairbrother (IF, Umeå university) "People’s Attitudes about “The Environment”

16.30 – 17.30    Roundtable discussion

18.30                 Dinner

3rd Day – 29th September

9.30 – 10.00       Coffee

10.00 – 10.30     Clare Heyward (IF, University of Tromsö) "The Cultural Dimension of Climate Justice"

10.30 – 11.00     Paul Bowman (IF) "Corrective Justice and Climate Change"

11.00 – 11.30     Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.00     Robert Huseby (University of Oslo) "Sufficiency and the Threshold Question"

12.00 – 13.00     Lunch

13.00 – 13.30     Coffee Break

13.30 – 14.00     Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton university) "Two Issues in Climate Ethics: Social Valuation of Risk and Optimal Carbon Pricing"

14.00 – 14.30     Anders Herlitz (IF) "Parfitian Population Ethics"

14.30 – 15.00     Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund university) "Can Parfit’s Appeal to Incommensurabilities Help to Block the Continuum Argument for Repugnant Conclusion?"

15.00 – 15.30     Coffee Break

15.30 – 16.00     Johan Gustafsson (IF, University of York, Göteborg university) "Population ethics, Sequential Choice, and Personal Identity"

16.00 – 17.00     Roundtable discussion

18.30                  Dinner

Other participants

Sverker Jagers (University of Gothenburg) 
Orri Stefansson (University of Copenhagen/IF)
Bob Goodin (Australian National University)
Therese Lindahl (The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics)
Vuko Andric (IF)
Andrew Williams (Pompeu Fabra University)
Catriona McKinnon (University of Reading)
Eva Erman (Stockholm University)
Daniel Ramöller (Stockholm University)
Simon Matti (Luleå University of Technology)
Mats Ingelström (Stockholm University)
Ludvig Beckman (Stockholm University)
Marina Povitkina (University of Gothenburg)
Jimmy Goodrich (Stockholm University/Rutgers)
Signe Savén (Lunds University)


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