http://politicsofhealth.org/wol/2010-03-15.htm
In December 2008 I wrote on NBICS and Geo-engineering the direct and intentional modification of our planet's climate. In my November 30th column I covered Ableism and anti-environmentalism, and highlighted a legal instrument that could give guidance on how to deal with nature. In another, I looked at how nanotechnology is envisioned to help deal with the climate crisis. Since 2008 a lot has been written about Geo-engineering. The Royal Society (UK) has published the findings of a major study into geoengineering the climate in Sept 2009. This House of Commons (UK) report is from March 2009. The Copenhagen Consensus (Bjorn Lomberg) has issued two reports on geoengineering as a response to climate change. Retooling the Planet: Climate Chaos in a Geoengineering Age, is a Report Commissioned and Published by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. Then there is the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee “The Regulation of Geoengineering” Fifth Report of Session 2009–10 Report from March 2010. A geoengineering summit is to go on in March 2010. Now lets link this developments to another. At UNESCO Bangkok an Ethics and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific (ECCAP) project is under way.
Draft reports on Ethical Frameworks for Ethics and Climate Change [09.01.2010], comments and contributions are welcome.
1. Universalism and environmental values
2. Ethical worldviews of nature
3. Visions and hopes of the future
4. Representation and who decides
5. Community engagement
6. Stakeholder responsibilities
7. Energy equity and environmental security
8. Cost-benefit analysis and economic constructions
9. Adoption and development of energy technologies (state of art review)
10. Ethical frameworks for research agendas and policy
11. Educational frameworks for environmental ethics
12. Nuclear Dialogues
13. Energy flow, environment, and ethical implications of meat production
14. Water ethics and water resource management
15. Gender, Environment and Energy technologies
16. Ethics and Biodiversity
17. Ethics and International Investment in the Energy Sector, and the Environment
Many of the reports from the different working groups still look for contributors. Here is your chance!
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Gregor Wolbring is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. He is Affiliated Scholar, Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, USA; Part Time Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Canada; Adjunct Faculty Critical Disability Studies, York University, Canada. He is a science and technology governance scholar, a disability/vari-ability/ability studies scholar, and a health policy and science and technology studies researcher. He is the Chair of the Bioethics Taskforce of Disabled People's International. He publishes the Bioethics, Culture and Disability website, authors a weblog on NBICS and its social implications and on Ableism and Ability Ethics and Governance and contributes to the What Sorts of People blog.
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