News & Events: Lunch Lecture: April Lunch Lecture: Agency in Climate Justice (30 April 2025)
The third Lunch Lecture of the four-part series takes place on 30 April 2025: Ivo Walliman-Helmer (University of Fribourg) will discuss common but differentiated responsibilities with regard to agency in climate justice.
By Responsible City Team on Thu, Feb 27, 2025
Ethical challenges concerning climate change most often involve two issues that are tightly connected. The first is considerations about the just distribution of entitlements and burdens, and the second concerns the fair differentiation of responsibilities. The distribu tion of entitlements and burdens can be assessed by relying on one or combinations of principles of climate justice. Although the fairness of any differentiation of responsibilities must rely on these principles of justice, the applicability of these principles and the demands they make strongly depend on the agents bearing the responsibility and what policy domains are at issue. Not all agents can be ascribed the same responsibilities, and not all measures for climate action can or should be realized by the same differentiation of responsibilities.
The event will take place online on 30 April from 12:30 to 13:30 and can be attended via this Zoom link. More information on the Lunch Lecture series can be obtained from the flyer below.