Ethics, responsibility and the carbon budget

该项目旨在为分配世界剩余的“碳预算”（CB）提供一个严格的道德框架。为了避免气候变化，世界必须大幅限制温室气体的排放。该项目将对我们关于风险和危害的假设如何形成CB概念进行新的分析。鉴于各国过去排放的温室气体量差异巨大，它还将对如何分配未来的排放权提供新的认识。该项目将分析二氧化碳将如何影响澳大利亚等国的气候转型计划。因此，该项目将为实际问题带来重要的哲学新研究。

This project aims to provide a rigorous ethical framework for dividing the world’s remaining ‘carbon budget’ (CB). In order to avoid climate change the world must drastically limit its emissions of greenhouse gases. The project will develop a new analysis of how our assumptions concerning risk and harm shape conception of the CB. It will also provide a new understanding of how future emission rights should be allocated given that countries have emitted vastly different quantities of greenhouse gases in the past. The project will analyse how the CB will impact the climate transition plans of countries such as Australia. The project will thus bring significant new research in philosophy to bear on a practical issue.