Most of my papers and two books on climate
justice have been interested in arguing for the importance of global poverty to
the understanding of the problem. I have defended an Anti-Poverty Principle,
which holds that the identification of dangerous climate change involves a
normative judgment about what we have reason to avoid, and that includes the
prolongation or creation of involuntary poverty. I have also defended a Right
to Promote Sustainable Development, which I interpret as a liberty right of
states to pursue poverty eradicating human development within the context of
international cooperation to mitigate climate change. And I have defended a Pro
Poor Formula, which holds that climate change adaptation policies should
prioritize projects on the basis of three factors, effectiveness, the number of
poor people protected, and the depth of their poverty. In Mobilizing Hope I argue that both youth lead climate activism and
developments in the renewable energy market are reasons to hope that the power
of the fossil industry can be broken and that planetary warming can be limited
within internationally accepted limits.
“Climate Change, Policy, and Justice" in Birgit Blättel-Mink ed., Nachhaltige Entwicklung in einer Gesellschaftes Umbruchs Springer Verlag, October 2021.
“Assessing Climate Policies: Catastrophe Avoidance and the Right to Sustainable Development" Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Co-author Daniel Callies, Volume 20 Issue 2, May 2021, 33-45.
“Ethical Choices behind Quantifications of Fair Contributions under the Paris Agreement," Nature Climate Change 11, 2021, 300-305. Co-authors Siva Kartha, Tom Athansiou, Simon Caney, Elizabeth Cripps, Kate Dooley, Vroz K. Dubash, Teng Fei, Paul G. Harris, Christian Holz, Bård Lahn, Benito Müller, J. Timmons Roberts, Ambuj Sagar, Henry Shue, Peter Singer, and Harald Winkler.
“Three Interpretations of the Anthropocene: Hope and Anxiety at the End of Nature" Ethics, Politics, and Society, 3, 2020. .
“Responsibility for Increasing Mitigation Ambition in Light of the Right to Sustainable Development" Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 13, 2020, 181-192.
“Distributive Justice and Climate Change Economics, " Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltforschung, 2020. Heft 1. Co-author Axel Schaffer and Sebastian Brun.
“The Cry of the Earth and The Cry of the Poor," in Robert McKim ed. Laudatory Si and The Environment: Pope Francis' Green Encyclical (London: Routledge, 2019).
“Development and Climate Ethics" in Anabelle Lever and Andrei Paoma, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (London: Routledge, 2018).
“Justice in Mitigation After Paris," in Colleen Murphy, Pablo Gandoni, and Robert McKim, eds. Climate Change and Its Impacts: Risks and Inequalities (New York: Springer, 2018).
“Cascading Biases against Poorer Countries," letter, Nature Climate Change 8, 2018, 348-349. Co-authors Siva Kartha, Tom Athansiou, Simon Caney, Elizabeth Cripps, Kate Dooley, Vroz K. Dubash, Teng Fei, Paul G. Harris, Christian Holz, Bård Lahn, Benito Müller, J. Timmons Roberts, Ambuj Sagar, Henry Shue, Peter Singer, and Harald Winkler.
“Justice and Climate Change" in Jonathan Wolff, ed. Readings in Moral Philosophy (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2017).
“Progress, Destruction, and the Anthropocene", Social Philosophy and Policy, 34:2, 2017, 66-88.
“An Intergenerationally Fair Path to 2ºC", Climatic Change, 143:3, 2017, 213-226. Co-Author Axel Schaffer.
“Equalizing the Intergenerational Burdens of Climate Change — An Alternative to Discounted Utilitarianism" Midwest Studies in Philosophy XL, 2016, 43-62. Co-Author Axel Schaffer.
Taking UNFCCC Norms Seriously" in Dominic Roser and Jennifer Heyward eds. Climate Change and Non-Ideal Theory, Oxford University Press, 2016, 104-124.
“Can Dangerous Climate Change Be Avoided," Global Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric 8 2016.
“Climate Change Justice," Philosophy Compass, online, March 2015, 173-186.
“Beyond Discounted Utilitarianism — Just Distribution of Climate Costs," Karlsruher Beitäge zur Wirtschaftspolitischen Forschung34, 2014, 185-203. Co-author Axel Schaffer.
“Responsibility and the Right to Sustainable Development in Climate Change Treaty Deliberations" in Marcello Di Paola and Gianfranco Pellegrino eds. Canned Heat: The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change, Routledge, forthcoming 2014.
“Climate Change and Global Justice," WIREs Climate Change, on line, Feb. 1, 2012.
“A Normative Account of Dangerous Climate Change," Climatic Change, 108:1, 2011, 57-72.
“A Right to Sustainable Development," The Monist, 94:3, July 2011, 433-452.
“Common Atmospheric Ownership and Equal Emissions Entitlements," in Denis Arnold ed. The Ethics of Global Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 104-123.
“Treaty Norms and Climate Change Mitigation," Ethics and International Affairs, 23:3, Fall 2009, 247-265. Also available on line at http://www.cceia.org/resources/journal/23_3/features/001
“Justice and the Intergenerational Assignment of the Costs of Climate Change," Journal of Social Philosophy, 40:2, 2009, 204-224.
“Equal Natural Rights to Property and Climate Change," for the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 2007 (nicht peer-reviewed).
Original version and English translation of Moellendorf's recent article in Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung: “Ukraine has no Jus ex Bello obligation to enter into concessionary negotiations"
Workshop with Chris Armstrong on his new book manuscript "Conservation and Global Justice: Responding fairly to the Biodiversity Crisis". More information here.
Professor Moellendorf's 2020 paper “Responsibility for Increasing Mitigation Ambition" was mentioned and cited in the recent UN-report on climate change mitigation. See chapter 4, page 99.
Darrel Moellendorf's reflections on eco-sabotage in the Daily Maverick can be found here.
Darrel Moellendorf was interviewed for the podcast "Hessen schafft Wissen". You can listen to the interview under the heading "Mobilizing Hope in the Face of Climate Change" here.
Darrel Moellendorf participated in a discussion on the topic "Der urbane Planet - soziale, ökonomische und ökologische Herausforderungen für das globale Zusammenleben der Gegenwart" as part of the tinyMONDAY on the 5th of July. You can find further information here.
Moellendorf gave a talk at the conference "Normative Economic Policy". You can find further information here.