Ethical dimensions of CCS: comparing Scotland and Japan - Presentation from Dr Leslie Mabon (Robert Gordon University) at the UKCCSRC's CCS: Issues in governance and ethics workshop in Edinburgh, 23 September 2014

1. Ethical dimensions of CCS: comparing Scotland and Japan
Dr Leslie Mabon
Robert Gordon University Aberdeen
l.j.mabon@rgu.ac.uk

2. Mabon, L, and Shackley, S (2014) ‘More than meeting the targets? The ethical dimensions of carbon dioxide capture and storage’ Environmental Values Advance online version: http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/EV/papers/Mabon.pdf
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Preston (2011) – challenge ‘moral presumption’ against geoengineering in environmental ethics;
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Gough and Boucher (2013) – ethical matrices and ethical landscapes of CCS;
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Apply to work with publics/stakeholders in Scotland, now expand to data from Japan.

3. Justice

8. Preventing harm

13. Competence

19. Justice: Scotland – faultlines along procedural/epistemic, also distributional (?); Japan – good consensus on distribution of benefits?
Preventing harm: Scotland – temporal, does deploying CCS now prevent future harm? Japan – how ‘harmful’ is CCS compared to nuclear and/or other marine drivers?
Competence: Scotland – do we need competence in CCS? Japan – are we competent to operate CCS, especially with regard to earthquakes?

20. l.j.mabon@rgu.ac.uk
energyvalues.wordpress.com
@ljmabon