The projects about environmental ethics are focused on questions regarding the justification of duties to protect the environment and to mitigate climate change. It is assumed that justificatory strategies should strive for an integration of those duties in normative frameworks that are based on human dignity, human rights, the rule of law and a democratic political order. A variety of current attempts to justify those duties in a non-anthropocentric way fail to do so. Pathways for such a justification from a broadly Kantian perspective are possible but so far not very prominent in environmental ethics.

Projects are welcome regarding any question within the mentioned field.