CfA: Climate Futures Initiative Online Workshop

[Ewan Kingston]

Call For Abstracts - Climate Futures Initiative Online Workshop 2020

Theme: Bridging gaps of affluence, nation and time

More details: Climate change has been called a “perfect moral storm”* meaning a challenge that involves collective action problems across country borders, with costs and benefits spread over many generations. This workshop explores and evaluates how institutions, policies and technologies might allow us to deal justly and effectively with climate change; considering the way its causes and effects involve people from very different material, generational, and national circumstances. (*The term was coined by Steven Gardiner.)

The workshop will be hosted by Princeton's Climate Future's Initiative (link), online and asynchronous. Twelve authors will provide works-in-progress (WIPs) to registered participants, including several special invited guests. These WIPs can take the form of a 15-20 minute video, a 3000-4000 word document, or both.

Abstracts due: June 12, 2020
Successful applicants notified: June 23
Works due: August 7,
Works accessible for comment from registered participants: August 10-24

Criteria for selection: fit with the topic, original contribution, interdisciplinary promise, and balance among papers.

Send blinded (400-700 word) abstracts to cfi...@princeton.edu with the subject line “CFI workshop abstract” by June 12.

Send any questions to Ewan Kingston: ewan.k...@princeton.edu

To express interest in attending the workshop, add your email here: (link)

Potential questions the workshop could cover include, but are not limited to:

* How should decarbonization strategies in one country try to take into account the potential synergies with decarbonization strategies in other countries
* By what institutional mechanisms should the interests of future people be considered in current decision-making on climate change?

* Should challenges of pervasive inequality and climate change be dealt with separately or in tandem?

* What is the appropriate role for market mechanisms to play in mitigating climate change internationally?

* Are “bargains” between a country's younger and older generations on climate change feasible and justified?

* How should we include the risks of human extinction when weighing climate change policies?
* Should countries' Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) be formally compared in terms of global justice? If so, how?
* What does the SARS-Cov2 pandemic mean for collective global responses to climate change?
* To what extent should global cooperation on climate change be understood against the backdrop of the injustices of colonialism?
* What role should the UNFCCC play in marshaling responses to climate change in the decades to come?
* What specific duties do fossil fuel extraction companies have to act on climate change?

We look forward to receiving your abstracts!