An investigation into the political philosophy of the IPCC using notions of responsibility

博士项目对跨国环境下气候“损失与损害”（L&D）的公民认识论进行了跨学科的批判性研究。围绕L&D事实的认识论和政治有效性，总体目标是有助于更深入地理解L&D的概念发展和制度化对全球和地方对气候变化的理解意味着什么（Hulme 2008），同时考虑天气归因科学的进展。研究的核心问题是“在不同的跨国背景下，关于气候L&D的知识主张和事实是如何在认知和政治管辖范围内建立、验证和动员的”。我们将在提出和/或利用L&D知识主张的选定地点（IPCC、UNFCCC、亚太论坛损失与损害、脆弱国家损失与损害倡议、损失与损害网络），通过三角化的多地点人种志（专家访谈、观察、文献分析）进行调查。中心目标是结合对过去的知识生产和动员的努力的分析，以及对L&D事实旅行的未来轨迹的探索，特别是利用新的气候建模技术。追溯L&D的演变将为人文地理学、科学技术研究（STS）和气候科学的跨学科研究议程引发新的问题。

The PhD project presents an interdisciplinary critical study of civic epistemologies of climate "Loss and Damage" (L&D)in transnational settings. Revolving around the epistemic and political effectiveness of L&D facts, the overarching aim isto contribute to a deeper understanding about what the conceptual development and institutionalisation of L&D meansfor global and local understandings of climate change (Hulme 2008), while accounting for progress made in weatherattribution science. The central research question asks "how knowledge claims and facts about climate L&D areestablished, validated and mobilised across both epistemic and political jurisdictions in different transnational settings".This will be investigated through triangulated multi-sited ethnography (expert interviews, observations, documentanalysis) in selected sites where L&D knowledge claims are made and/or utilised (IPCC, UNFCCC, Asia-Pacific Forumon Loss and Damage, Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative, Loss and Damage Network). The centralobjective is to combine an analysis of past efforts of knowledge production and mobilisation across political andepistemic communities with an exploration of future trajectories for L&D facts travelling, inter alia with recourse to newclimate modelling techniques. Tracing back the evolution of L&D will trigger new questions for an interdisciplinaryresearch agenda in Human Geography, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Climate Science.