Sentences with phrase «conceivable ethical theory»

That is under any conceivable ethical theory, nations must set ghg targets based upon their duties to not harm others, not self - interest alone.

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Although as we have seen what fairness requires is a matter about which different ethical theories might reach different conclusions, a claim by almost any nation in the top 80 percent of global per capita emissions that it is already below its fair share of safe global emissions is highly unlikely to pass scrutiny on the basis of any conceivable ethically theory.