Initiated by Anton Leist and Lukas Meyer in September 2007, the Working Group aims to provide a public academic forum for debates relating to the ethical and politically-normative problems inherent in environmental degradation, resource depletion and climate change, including their social impact both nationally and globally. The group facilitates the exchange of work in progress by a shared Internet platform in addition to holding regular meetings devoted to enriching a cooperating network of environmental ethicists. For the time being, the Group will address both the national and the transnational political problem of environmental degradation from the perspective of theories of justice. We hope to contribute to new understandings of the normative issues involved and in a practically relevant way.   

The Group is open to participants from relevant normative disciplines, especially (but not exclusively) from moral philosophy, political science, and theology. Regular, bimonthly meetings will be held at the Karman Center for Advanced Studied in the Humanities of the University of Berne and the Ethics-Center of the University of Zurich. Anyone interested in the Working Group should make contact with either of the convenors: Keith Bustos (Bern) and Dominic Roser (Zurich).