Unilateral action on climate change and the moral obligation to take leadership

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2024-10-23
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Steel, Daniel
Cripps, Rachel
DesRoches, C. Tyler
Bartha, Paul
Mintz‐Woo, Kian
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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10.1111/josp.12592
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We claim that a moral obligation to take climate leadership by means of unilateral mitigation depends on the existence of a plausible follow‐the‐leader mechanism whereby unilateral mitigation by some increases the probability of sufficient mitigation by others to avert catastrophic climate impacts. By understanding these mechanisms, we can better articulate the obligation for climate leadership across various sectors, from government to individual actors, in the fight against climate change.
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Climate change , Climate ethics , Climate justice , Leadership , Mitigation
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Steel, D., Cripps, R., DesRoches, C. T., Bartha, P. and Mintz‐Woo, K. (2024) 'Unilateral action on climate change and the moral obligation to take leadership', Journal of Social Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12592
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17536
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© 2024, the Authors. Journal of Social Philosophy published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the originalwork is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.