ABSTRACT
The prospect of anthropogenic climate change raises many ethical issues. In particular, as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change emphasizes, it raises questions of justice and equity (UNFCCC Article 3.1). My aim in this chapter is to give an overview of some of the ethical issues at stake and to indicate some of the main arguments made concerning these issues.1 I shall begin by identifying six ethical issues that are thrown up by the occurrence of climate change, and then turn to examine each in turn. I should make clear at the start that it is not possible to examine all the ethical questions posed by climate change, so I have chosen to focus on some of the most fundamental ones.2
