Gupta, Abhik2019-09-252019-09-252011-03-042010-071173-2571http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/176650"Being a global problem with a plethora of ramifications, climate change is fraught with numerous ethical issues in the conducting of research and framing of policies for adaptation and mitigation. The scientific uncertainty in several projected impact areas is primarily responsible for generating a number of ethical and policy-related controversies. The fixing of targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, determining the threshold year of emission levels, and the relative obligation of the different parties in reduction of emissions perhaps comprise the most important areas where ethical debates remain to be resolved. As has been pointed out by several leading researchers in this field, determining the level at which the greenhouse gases (GHG) are to be stabilized will in turn determine a host of consequences such as the chances of survival of many forms of biodiversity, agricultural productivity, spread of vector-borne and other climate change induced diseases, the extent of ice melt and sea level rise, the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, and so on.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderglobal warmingresearch ethicsEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsBiodiversity ethicsAnimal ethicsEthics of global commonsArticle