Ethics of “Geoengineering” the Global Climate

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, and is author of A Perfect Moral Storm: the Ethical Challenge of Climate Change and Debating Climate Ethics, as well as many articles on climate justice and the ethics of geoengineering.Catriona McKinnon is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter, author of Climate Change and Future Justice and numerous articles on climate ethics and justice.Augustin Fragnière is a trained philosopher and environmental scientist, who has published on climate ethics, geoengineering and sustainability theory.

• Introduction: Geoengineering, Political Legitimacy and Justice1. The Tollgate Principles for the Governance of Geoengineering: Moving Beyond the Oxford Principles to an Ethically More Robust Approach2. Climate Change, Climate Engineering, and the "Global Poor": What Does Justice Require?3. Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations4. Recognitional Justice, Climate Engineering, and the Care Approach5. Institutional Legitimacy and Geoengineering Governance6. Legitimacy and Non-Domination in Solar Radiation Management Research7. Toward Legitimate Governance of Solar Geoengineering Research: A Role for Sub-State Actors8. Fighting risk with risk: solar radiation management, regulatory drift, and minimal justice9. The Panglossian politics of the geoclique10. Democratic authority to geoengineer11. A mission-driven research program on solar geoengineering could promote justice andlegitimacy12. Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges: what we can learn from moral emotions and art