ABSTRACT

In this chapter, I discuss two of the key concepts that underpin moral responsibility at the collective level of agency: joint and collective responsibility. In order to assign group agents responsibility for climate change in their capacity of occupying different societal and institutionalised roles, we need an account of how responsibility is distributed within the group. At this point, responsibility at the collective level can be defined in two ways. Collective responsibility can be applied in cases where each individual in the group is collectively responsible for an outcome or where none of the individuals in the group are responsible for an outcome.