Ethics of climate engineering: Don’t forget technology has an ethical aspect too

dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NCen
dc.contributor.authorBrooks, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorCannizzaro, Sara
dc.contributor.authorUmbrello, Steven
dc.contributor.authorBernstein, Michael
dc.contributor.authorRichardson, Kathleen
dc.date.acceptance2021-11-02
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-24T09:19:07Z
dc.date.available2021-11-24T09:19:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-11-10
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractClimate change may well be the most important issue of the 21st century and the world’s response, in the form of ‘Climate Engineering’, is therefore of equal pre-eminent importance. However, while there are technological challenges, there are equally just as important ethical challenges that these technologies also generate. Governments, funding agencies and non-governmental organisations increasingly recognise the importance of incorporating ethics into the development of emerging technologies (for example, within the EU draft legislation on AI). As the world faces the global challenge of climate change there are urgent efforts to develop strategies so that responses to the climate problems do not reproduce more of the same. Ethical values from the onset are fundamental to this process and need highlighting. Hence, this paper analyses a series of ethical codes, framework and guidelines of the new emerging technologies of climate engineering (CE) through a review of both published academic literature and grey literature from either industry, government, and non-governmental (NGO) organisations. This paper was developed as part of a collaboration with international partners from TechEthos (TechEthos receives funding from the EU H2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101006249; Ethics of Emerging Technologies), an EU-funded project that deals with the ethics of the new and emerging technologies anticipated to have high socio-economic impact. Our findings have identified the following ethical considerations including autonomy, freedom, integrity, human rights and privacy in the developmental process of climate engineering, while a poverty of ethical values reflecting dignity and trust were noted.en
dc.funderEuropean Union (EU) Horizon 2020en
dc.identifier.citationBrooks, L., Cannizzaro, S., Umbrello, S., Bernstein, M. and Richardson, K. (2021) Ethics of climate engineering: Don’t forget technology has an ethical aspect too. International Journal of Information Management, 102449.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102449
dc.identifier.issn0268-4012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/21494
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedNoen
dc.projectid101006249en
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR)en
dc.subjectClimate engineeringen
dc.subjectEthicsen
dc.subjectAutonomyen
dc.subjectFreedomen
dc.subjectHuman Rightsen
dc.subjectIntegrityen
dc.subjectPrivacyen
dc.subjectCodesen
dc.subjectGuidelinesen
dc.subjectFrameworksen
dc.titleEthics of climate engineering: Don’t forget technology has an ethical aspect tooen
dc.typeArticleen

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
ethics of climate engineering ver2.pdf
Size:
391.59 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
4.2 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: