CLIMATE ETHICS AND ANALYTICAL CATEGORIES: THEORETICAL-NORMATIVE POTENTIAL FOR POLICY MAKERS

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https://doi.org/10.33237/2236-255X.2021.2951

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Climate Ethics, SoSocio-Environmental Justice, Anthropocene, Climate Policy

Abstract

Climate ethics is one emerging force that has entered in the climate policy making arena. Different actors are proposing several policies for adapting and mitigating global warming. Recent research reveals that the current climate instruments are based mainly on technological and economic solutions, and more, they disregard or make invisible biogeocentric ethical principles. This article seeks to present the emerging of climate ethics within the latent theoretical field and its normative power.The methodological path adopted was through a qualitative approach, with systematic bibliographic review, documentary research and content analysis. In the first part of the article, the ontological rupture between the social and the natural is presented in the socio-climatic perspective. It also demonstrates how anthropocentric ethical principles are associated with the devastation of Nature, as well as they are being mobilized by strategies like negationism and techno-salvationism in climate policies. In the second part, I discuss the morality of the normative elements of this emerging ethics. In the third part, a synthesis of the analytical categories of the emerging climate ethics is presented. I conclude by presenting the real potential for both theoretical expansion of the field of climate ethics and normative categories for use in the processes of formulating climate policies.

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Frederico Salmi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Pesquisador e membro do grupo Tecnologia, Meio Ambiente e Sociedade (TEMAS/UFRGS), integrante do Componente 5 - Impactos sócio-polí­ticos e econômicos do Programa AmazonFACE/INPA, do grupo Ética, Polí­tica e Crise Climática (EPCC/Convivialistas Brasil). Membro associado e conselheiro pela AAG, CTANPU/COMAM/POA, CONAPAM, MOSAICO MANTINQUEIRA, REMAP, e outros. Signatário do Segundo Manifesto Convivialista (Grupo Brasil). Graduado em Engenharia I. Quí­mica (USP), Mestre/MBA (UNESP), Mestrando Sociologia (UFRGS). Atua com projetos de gestão e reordenamento socioambiental no terceiro setor com parceiras multilaterais a mais de 20 anos. Temas de interesse: polí­ticas ambientais e climáticas, ética climática e socioambiental, ecologia polí­tica, sociologia moral, instrumentos de descarbonização, tecnologias sociais, arranjos multilaterais, agenda polí­tica.

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2021-04-30

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SALMI, F. . CLIMATE ETHICS AND ANALYTICAL CATEGORIES: THEORETICAL-NORMATIVE POTENTIAL FOR POLICY MAKERS. Journal Geotemas, Pau dos Ferros, v. 11, p. e02105, 2021. DOI: 10.33237/2236-255X.2021.2951. Disponível em: https://periodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/GEOTemas/article/view/2951. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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