Rock Ethics Institute2019-09-252019-09-252010-09-142008-03http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175507"Victims of climate change rarely get heard. While the accomplishments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are laudable – Nobel Peace Prize, four assessment reports, wide recognition as the authoritative body on climate change – their work comprises the input of a narrow elite, not the wider community now impacted by climate change. The epistemic community that makes up and informs the IPCC is largely comprised of social and biophysical scientists and technicians from Northern centers of research. The voices of the sufferers – people living in climate change hot spots, indigenous nations, children, disenfranchised – are not included in the assessment reports and seldom reviewed for inclusion in the work of the IPCC. They are not part of the IPCC's decision making process, nor is their consent sought for policy decisions. These conditions have ethical implications." (p. 1).engWith permission of the license/copyright holderclimate changeclimate ethicsEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsPreprint