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VINCE · Vetting Implicit Normativity in Climate Economics

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Период: 2023-06-01 → 2025-05-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 750 €
Участници: 2
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Моделите за климатичните промени често включват скрити субективни ценности, например какво е „справедливо“ развитие за обществото. Разпознаването на тези предположения помага за по-голяма обективност и прозрачност при създаването на политики срещу глобалното затопляне.

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Vetting Implicit Normativity in Climate Economics

VINCE examines the design and use of integrated assessment models (IAMs) of climate change mitigation. IAMs address important questions about climate change, exploring how human development and societal choices interact with and affect the natural world. Their aim is to provide policy-relevant insights into global environmental change and sustainable development issues. Developing IAMs often requires making a host of implicitly normative assumptions, i.e., assumptions about the values that individuals and communities ought to pursue. These assumptions are inherently subjective and uncertain, requiring a philosophical competence to assess them. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship program, VINCE aims to develop a new methodology for managing value judgments in the context of IAM design and use. Specifically, the objectives of the project are: (i) to help IAM designers and users identify implicitly normative assumptions, and (ii) to specify a well-functioning set of stable arrangements (which includes attributions of accountability to actors and design of institutions appropriate to the respective roles) that can effectively preserve the objectivity and integrity of IAM research in light of its implicit normativity. The proposed set of arrangements must be context-sensitive, in that it must recognize the diversity of problem situations for which IAMs are employed, and action-guiding, in that it must provide recommendations regarding when and how implicit normativity in IAMs should be addressed, additionally specifying the incentive structures that should be in place for ensuring compliance by end users. The projects's expected impacts are multiple and are increasingly relevant as catastrophic risks of climate change grow and compound with one another. The main impacts are: a) bringing ethics closer to the climate sciences, increasing interdisciplinary work at the intersection of ethics and mathematical modeling of climate change; b) bringing climate research closer to the public, showing how societal debate and values can play a role in informing the design of mitigation scenarios; c) bringing climate research closer to policy-making, showing how reliable information is compatible (under certain conditions) with the value-ladenness of the practice of designing mitigation scenarios; d) training a new generation of engineers on the issue of sustainability, through dedicated university courses and outreach activities at Politecnico di Milano.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The project addresses the inherent presence of value judgments in current integrated assessment models (IAMs) of climate change impacts. Though widely used to inform public policy, many aspects of IAM design and use require making assumptions of an implicitly normative nature: assumptions that are ultimately about the values that individuals and communities ought to pursue. This raises a host of philosophical and methodological questions for which an interdisciplinary approach is needed: which actors and in which contexts – scientists at the model design stage, policy makers at the decision stage, etc.– should be in charge of making the normative choices that IAMs require? What practices and protocols are best suited to facilitate the recognition of normative assumptions in IAMs, the oversight by experts and stakeholders, and (if possible) the resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds them? To answer these questions, the project will first propose a taxonomy of implicitly normative assumptions in IAMs. Then, for each type identified, it will aim to determine which of several approaches is best suited to deal with that type of normativity. The resulting account will be a new model of IAM research that indicates how one ought to proceed in concrete contexts of IAM design, assessment and use. To achieve these objectives, Dr. Nappo will receive crucial training at Politecnico di Milano. Under the co-supervision of a philosopher of science and of a climate economist, he will integrate his demonstrated competences in the epistemology of scientific modelling and climate change ethics with new skills, which include first-hand experience with IAM modelling practices and grasp of their mathematical underpinnings. This training will allow Dr. Nappo to not only advance the literature on IAM normativity significantly beyond its current limits, but to also contribute to making IAM research more reliable and objective through an effective dissemination and exploitation plan.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoКоординаторИталия
FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI · LecceИталия