Faith and Climate Change: Towards a Research Agenda

Climate change is an urgent – possibly existential – challenge to continued human flourishing on this planet. So much so that it might be difficult today to respond to that most important spiritual question – ‘What is a good life?’ – without reference to some discussion of environmental values and ecological virtue, and particularly to climate change. Yet, the climate policy discourse is nearly entirely in the language of science and economics with little effort to link these to the moral dimensions of human values and behavior. Join the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), and the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs (CURA) for a panel discussion exploring the moral dimensions of climate action and the possible role of faith-based values in encouraging positive environmental and climate behaviors.