Negotiator Briefs on Cognition and Climate Change #3

The third installment of the CCC Briefs, titled, Rationality and Ethics: Are you a consequentialist?, is available here.

This COP 19 issue of the CCC Briefs uses the current negotiation context and events here in Warsaw to explore the link between rationality and ethical thinking in the climate negotiations under the UNFCCC. The last issue of this series outlined that rationality can be understood as weighing the costs and benefits of various paths of climate action. It argued that depending on the types of climate-related costs a person is concerned about, they can use very different ethical frameworks. In Brief No. 3 I add an important emotional dimension to the relationship between rationality and moral judgment.