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Dr. Alessandro Piazza
Politecnico di Milano

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Journal article
Published: 14 April 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper sets out a proposal for framing collective responsibility as a central element within the cooperative governance of climate change. It begins by reconstructing the analysis of climate change as a Tragedy of the Commons in the economic literature and as a Problem of Many Hands in the ethical literature. Both formalizations are shown to represent dilemmatic situations where an individual has no rational incentive to prevent the climate crisis and no moral requirement to be held responsible for contributing to it. Traditionally both dilemmas have been thought to be solvable only through a vertical structure of decision-making. Where contemporary research in political economy has undergone a “governance revolution”, showing how horizontal networks of public, private, and civil society actors can play an important role in the management of the climate crisis, little research has been carried out in the ethical field on how to secure accountability and responsibility within such a cooperative structure of social agency. Therefore, this paper contributes by individuating some conditions for designing responsible and accountable governance processes in the management of climate change. It concludes by claiming that climate change is addressable only insofar as we transition from a morality based on individual responsibility to a new conception of morality based on our co-responsibility for preventing the climate crisis.

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Alessandro Piazza. Collective Responsibility in the Cooperative Governance of Climate Change. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4363 .

AMA Style

Alessandro Piazza. Collective Responsibility in the Cooperative Governance of Climate Change. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4363.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Alessandro Piazza. 2021. "Collective Responsibility in the Cooperative Governance of Climate Change." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4363.