About

The Environmental Ethics Initiative at Trinity College Dublin aims to advance environmental ethics in the context of climate change and to identify and advance ethical solutions to the climate crisis.

Our central concern is to consider the fundamental ethical question of how we should live in this time of climate breakdown, when anthropogenic climate change is destroying ecosystems, accelerating biodiversity loss and endangering the livelihoods and rights of billons of people world-wide.

Our aim is to

investigate the ethics of the environmental crisis, with its inter-related, transnational ecological, technological, political, and socio-economic challenges,
understand the specific ethical components of the crisis,
investigate the adequacy of the various moral frameworks and philosophies through which these challenges are analysed,
identify the values that are essential to a just and sustainable future,
consider the basis on which moral trade-offs may be required,
develop and assess ethical solutions to the climate crisis.

Our EEI will draw on a range of relevant disciplines in natural and biosciences, engineering and technology, humanities and social sciences, including business and law, and will connect with policymakers and civil society actors and activists in order to forge an ethical path towards a sustainable future.