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PLOS Climate: Philosophy & Ethics section

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SECTION EDITORS

Mark Budolfson
University of Texas at Austin- USA

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SECTION SCOPE

The PLOS Climate Philosophy & Ethics section covers all aspects of the philosophical and ethical dimensions of climate change, including (but not limited to):

Values in climate research
Human-nature relations
Intergenerational ethics
Temporal discounting

For a full list of the Academic Editors serving in this section, please visit the PLOS Climate editorial board page.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN THIS SECTION

Corvino F (2025) Luxury-focused climate mitigation policies: A comparative ethical analysis. PLOS Clim 4(11): e0000740. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000740

Ribeiro C, Simonetti S (2025) Breaking hierarchical barriers in science: An early career researcher’s call to action. PLOS Clim 4(10): e0000733. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000733

Turner DT, Schaeffer JQ, Donatuto J, Landrum L, Nunn C, Lukin MK, et al. (2025) Nunakut naguatun atugluu/Co-stewardship: Co-production’ through the lens of the Study of Environmental Arctic Change’s Human Wellbeing Team. PLOS Clim 4(8): e0000692. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000692

van den Hoek Ostende M, Sorman AH (2025) From separation to relation: The rights of nature vs. nature’s contribution to people. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000654. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000654

Albert-Fonseca A, Cabello V, Furlan V, Galán E, Herreros-Cantis P, Liste L, et al. (2025) A plea for caring spaces in transformative climate research. PLOS Clim 4(5): e0000620. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000620

Acquaviva V, Barnes EA, Gagne DJ II, McKinley GA, Thais S (2024) Ethics in climate AI: From theory to practice. PLOS Clim 3(8): e0000465. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000465

Richie C, Garcia-Gomez P, Thio HB, Rwei A, Joo C, Staufer U, et al. (2024) Research on the health impact of climate must consider distributive justice and environmental sustainability. PLOS Clim 3(6): e0000431. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000431

Roussos J (2024) Managing values in climate science. PLOS Clim 3(6): e0000432. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000432

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