Climate Change

Framing ethical perspectives

Climate change refers to human-induced global warming, mostly due to greenhouse gas emissions, and large-scale impacts on weather patterns. As floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events become more common and certain regions turn inhospitable to humans, society is changing as well. Carnegie Council’s events, experts, and Impact Initiatives, such as the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G) and the Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC), analyze these changes from a socio-political perspective and search for ethical solutions to, possibly, the most pressing challenges that humanity has ever faced.

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MAR 28, 2024 Video

Unlocking Cooperation: The Global South and Global North

In the inaugural panel of the "Unlocking Cooperation" series, Ramu Damodaran leads a discussion on forging a path forward for Global South/North collaboration.

JAN 8, 2024 Podcast

C2GTalk: Why does the world now need to consider solar radiation modification? with Kim Stanley Robinson

Many objections to solar radiation modification have been overtaken by events, says "The Ministry of the Future" author Kim Stanley Robinson in this "C2GTalk."

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Mark Payumo in Manila last October with a Philippine National Police Officer, Pacific Fellow Tom Temprosa, & Devin Stewart. <br>CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

JAN 10, 2019 Podcast

Securitizing Climate Change in the Philippines, with Mark Payumo

Now based in California, Mark Payumo previously served as a Philippine Army Special Forces officer. Reflecting on his recent Carnegie Council site visit to Manila ...

DEC 18, 2018 Podcast

Climate Disaster Response in the Philippines, with Austin McKinney and Chetan Peddada

Pacific Delegates Austin McKinney and Chetan Pedada both have military backgrounds and technology expertise. They discuss ways in which machine-learning and military cooperation could help ...

The Pacific Delegates visit the Health Center of Brgy. Dampalit, Malabon City, Manila, on October 24, 2018. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

DEC 17, 2018 Article

Resources Resulting from Carnegie Council Climate Change Research Delegation to the Philippines, October 2018

In October 2018, Carnegie Council's Asia Dialogues program led a fact-finding trip to Manila to investigate the effects of climate change on the Philippines. How is ...

L to R: Pacific Delegates Candace Burnham & Yoko Okura, Carnegie Council's Amanda Ghanooni, in Manila, October 2018. CREDIT: Devin Stewart.

DEC 17, 2018 Podcast

Climate Change in South & Southeast Asia, with Yoko Okura

Yoko Okura of Mercy Corps discusses her recent visit to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, the site of a camp for 1 million Rohingya refugees. She learned ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/87913776@N00/3033615378"> futureatlas.com</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC</a>)

DEC 6, 2018 Article

It's Time for the U.S. and Chinese Militaries to Cooperate on HADR

Relations between the U.S. and China are at their lowest point in decades. Joint Humanitarian and Disaster Response (HADR) would provide an effective mechanism ...

DEC 4, 2018 Podcast

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now, with Alan Rusbridger

"Were we a business, were we a mission, were we a public service, or were we a profit center?" Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of "The ...

After Super Typhoon Haiyan. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Philippine_resident_sits_outside_of_his_home_in_the_aftermath_of_Super_Typhoon_Haiyan_131115-N-BD107-722.jpg">Kennedy, Liam, MCSN</a>  via Wikimedia Commons

NOV 27, 2018 Article

Machine-Learning, Climate Change, and Disaster Management in the Philippines

Machine-learning can provide relevant information at the right moment to climate change disaster survivors in the Philippines.

NOV 1, 2018 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Climate Change Mitigation & Governance, with C2G2's Janos Pasztor

As activists, politicians, and environmentalists come to terms with a dire report on global warming from the UN's IPCC, Janos Pasztor, executive director of the ...

OCT 11, 2018 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Disaster Response & Ethics, with Malka Older

Former Senior Fellow Malka Older, a novelist and aid worker, details the ethical and logistical sides of disaster response, drawing on her experiences in Sri ...

JUL 2, 2018 Podcast

India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, with Mira Kamdar

What are the challenges that will have the most impact on India's future? Award-winning author Mira Kamdar puts climate change and environmental degradion at the ...