Ethical analysis of the documents concerning climate protection. Cover Image

Etyczna analiza dokumentów dotyczących ochrony klimatu.
Ethical analysis of the documents concerning climate protection.

Author(s): Małgorzata Kaniewska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Energy and Environmental Studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Environmental and Energy policy, Human Ecology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: climate change; climate protection; environmental protection; environmental awareness; environmental ethics;

Summary/Abstract: The United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol are considered crucial from the perspective of climate change analysis. Their main point was that climate change and its negative consequences represent the common problem of all the people on Earth. Ethical analysis of the documents reveal on the opportunities to connect justice and responsibility with the legal and political concepts that in turn effects in co-creation of mutually understood meanings. The Air Protection Order results from the idea of sustainable development that represents the fundamental base of documents. However international climate agreements do not define this idea, barely comprising its constitutive elements like intra- and intergenerational justice, contemporary and future generations responsibility and need for natural environment protection.

  • Issue Year: 26/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 129-147
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish