Climate change, health and ethics
Current Project
Current project
Identifying and exploring the key ethical issues relevant to health and climate change.
To inform our project exploring how ethics can help decision-makers balance the trade-offs in addressing the impact of climate change on health, we commissioned two pieces of work:
1. Ethical approaches at the intersection of climate change, the environment and health
By Dr Cristian Timmermann, Research Associate, Ethics of Medicine; Katharina Wabnitz, Project Research Associate; and Dr Verina Wild, Professor of Medical Ethics - Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg
This literature review provides an overview of ethical approaches used at the intersection of climate change, the environment and health. Six ethical approaches are discussed and a concise assessment is provided on how each of these ethical approaches may inform policy and practice addressing climate change, environmental degradation and health.
By Dr Richard Caddell, Reader in Marine and Environmental Law, Cardiff University
This review aims to provide an overview of the legal approaches and obligations concerning climate change, as well as some of the most important cases that have interpreted these requirements in the UK courts.
The review is split into three main parts:
- International law
- UK law
- Devolved law
Climate change law and policy remains remarkably fast-paced and is constantly evolving. This review seeks to capture and document the core framework as it stood in summer 2024.
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