Mapping a Moral Landscape of IPCC

Public discourse indicates that e.g. researchers, churches, economists, lay people, climate experts, policymakers, artists and educators agree that climate change1 involves serious moral challenges to glocal communities. Still, with some exceptions moral philosophers and ethicists have not paid attention to the moral dimension of mitigation, adaptation and vulnerability. Thus, this chapter and this book are unusual voices in a slowly expanding field of crossdisciplinary climate change research in highlighting meanings of ethical aspects of climate change. The main purpose of this chapter is to identify and clarify the ethical content of current climate change discourse. This is accomplished by answering the question of what a climate change moral landscape would look like according to the Intergovernmental panel of climate change (IPCC)4 from the point of view of the capabilities approach (TCA). Thus, the results reported in this chapter stems from an ethical5 analysis of selected documents from IPCC’s fourth assessment report (AR4).6 This reading (or mapping) of IPCC is related to climate change philosophy, anthropology, theology and mobility research. Following this introduction, the second part produces a theoretical and methodological framework for the analysis and it also includes a short introduction to TCA. The third and main section presents results of the analysis. The final part includes conclusions and a discussion of the results as well as comments on and suggestions for further research.
Climate Capabilities/Ett rättvist klimat, FORMAS