 Why Business Firms Have Moral Obligations to Mitigate Climate ChangeAnne Schwenkenbecher ()
A chapter in Disciplining the Undisciplined?, 2018, pp 55-70 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Without doubt, the global challenges we are currently facing—above all world poverty and climate changeclimate change —require collective solutions: states, national and international organizations, firms and business corporations as well as individuals must work together in order to remedy these problems. In this chapter, I discuss climate change mitigation as a collective action problem from the perspective of moral philosophy. In particular, I address and refute three arguments suggesting that business firms and corporations have no moral duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissionsgreenhouse gas emissions GHGs : (i) that business corporations are not appropriate addressees of moral demands because they are not moral agentsagents , and (ii) that to the extent that they are moral agents their primary moral obligation is to their owners or shareholders, and (iii) the appeal to the difference principle: that individual business corporations cannot really make a significant difference to successful climate change mitigation. Keywords: Business Firms; Agentsagents; Difference Principle; Climate changeClimate Change Mitigation; Parfit (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-71449-3_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71449-3_4 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance from Springer |
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