Political Responsibility for Climate Change: Ethical Institutions and Fact-Sensitive Theory

This book offers new perspectives on how social and political institutions can respond more effectively to climate change.

Theresa Scavenius presents a concept of moral responsibility that does not address the obligations of individual citizens, but instead assesses the moral responsibility of institutionalised actors, such as governments, parliaments, and other governmental agencies. This focus on political responsibility is something that up until now has largely been neglected by moral th...