2nd Annual DACH Climate Ethics Network Workshop

Climate change poses serious threats for humanity and nature alike. A number of ethical questions are attached to these challenges: What is unjust about these impacts? What should be done to avoid them? What is owed to those suffering from climate harms if they are not avoided? Who must take responsibility for action? And what can legitimately be done if the relevant actors do not pursue sufficient measures?

The aim of the DACH Climate Ethics Network and its 2nd annual workshop is to bring together people working on these questions who are in some loose way related to the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) – for instance, because they work at a University in the DACH region, or because they plan their academic future there – to discuss the current issues of climate ethics.

Program

  • Day 1: 29.01.2026
    Time Name & Affiliation Title Comment
    9:00-9:20 Registration & Coffee
    9:20-9:30 Welcome
    9:30-10:20 Antonia Holland-Cunz & Lukas Tank (Kiel University ) Düsseldorf Hypotheses on How to Do Climate Ethics in the Current Age Simon Kräuchi
    10:20-11:10 Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe Universtity Frankfurt) Climate Change Mitigation and the Plutocratic Tendency --
    11:10-11:30 Coffee Break 11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
    11:30-12:10 Dominic Roser (University of Fribourg) What question should the degrowth vs green growth debate focus on? Kian Mintz-Woo
    12:10-13:30 Lunch
    13:30-14:20 Ilja Kirianoff (University of Fribourg) Intergenerational Risk and the Limits of Permissibility: A Human Rights Perspective --
    14:20-15:10 Simon Kräuchi (Universität Fribourg) Just Participation in Loss and Damage Policy --
    15:10-15:30 Coffee Break
    15:30-16:10 Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, Kathrin von Allmen, Simon Kräuchi (University of Fribourg and University of Harvard) Shifting Moral Landscapes in Times of Climate Emergency Lukas Sparenborg
    16:10-17:00 Round Table: The Future of the DACH Climate Ethics Network
    19:00 Conference Dinner
  • Day 2: 30.01.2026
    Time Name & Affiliation Title Comment
    9:00-9:30 Coffee
    9:30-10:20 Gwendoline Bossert (Université de Fribourg ) The Democratic Dimension of Care Ethics for Environmental Decision-Making --
    10:20-11:10 Harald Stelzer (Universität Graz) Land-based CDR and its possible implication for climate justice Lars Felix Neth
    11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
    11:30-12:20 Eva Backhaus (FU Berlin) Pollution and Environmental Ethics --
    12:20-13:30 Lunch
    13:30-14:20 Alyssa Delarosa (University of Graz) Biodiversity offsetting and decision-making governance --

January 29-30, 2026

Bulding: PER 14

Room:  2.226

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