Climate Change

Climate change -- caused by humanity's emission of greenhouse gases -- has emerged as a global issue of the highest urgency. On this page, you will find some articles addressing climate change from an integrated ethical perspective, as framed by the Earth Charter. This page was initially developed in 2007 to stimulate a dialogue on these issues making the linkages with the Earth Charter.

To initiate this dialogue, two members of Earth Charter International Council -- Australian scientist Brendan Mackey of Australian National University, and Chinese lawyer Song Li of the World Bank -- have written in 2007 a report to the ECI Council entitled Winning the Struggle Against Global Warming. We invite you to read this paper and others that are related to this theme. 


Here you can download the following essays/documents:
 

• ECI Recommendations on the Climate Change negotiations - Latest version (December 2009)
• ECI Recommendations on the Climate Change negotiating text toward Copenhagen Conference (June 2009 Version)
• Lubbers, Ruud, Borren and Vanenburg Article - Negotiations will not save the planet (December 2009)
• Winning the Struggle Against Global Warming - By Brendan Mackey and Song Li
• Response to Comments - By Brendan Mackey and Song Li 
• Global Warming is an Ethical Issue - By Alan AtKisson
• Protecting Life From Climate Change - By David Chalmers
• Winning the Struggle against Global Warming : Switch modern agriculture to family farming in Senegal - By Ibrahima Seck