Ethics, responsibility and the carbon budget

该项目旨在为分配全球剩余的“碳预算”(CB)提供一个严格的伦理框架。为了避免气候变化，世界必须严格限制温室气体排放。该项目将对我们关于风险和危害的假设如何形成CB的概念进行新的分析。鉴于各国过去排放的温室气体数量大相径庭，它还将为未来如何分配排放权提供新的理解。该项目将分析《气候公约》将如何影响澳大利亚等国的气候过渡计划。因此，该项目将在哲学方面带来重大的新研究，以解决一个实际问题。

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.