Sentences with phrase «ethical obligations based»

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He said he has an «ethical obligation» to focus for the next five years on his newly announced De Soto joint venture for a blockchain - based global property registry.

That is, they are under both ethical and epistemic obligations to argue for the truth of what they take themselves to believe when they are faced with religious others who appear to believe something different and to act differently based upon such difference in belief.

Varmus, who was a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for his work on the genetic basis of cancer, addressed questions on a range of topics in genetics, including the ethical obligations of scientists and proper use of patents.

Yet the pace of HIV vaccine research is now growing so swiftly that the scientific goal of conducting and completing a clinical trial may be threatened by a higher ethical obligation — to inform those taking part in the study that the original scientific basis for the research may have been modified by later work.

We believe it is our ethical obligation to raise awareness about how the proposed changes not only lack a sound research basis, but in some instances, have already proven to be harmful.

If records were available on national compliance with ethical obligations for climate change, they could be used both by the international community to pressure nations to improve performance on their climate change ethical obligations and also create a factual basis that could be used by citizens within the nation to ensure that the national climate change policies consider ethical obligations in setting their emissions targets.

Yet, many nations continue to make national commitments under the UNFCCC as if national economic self - interest rather than ethical obligations is an adequate basis for determining national policies on climate change.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

Nations continue to set ghg emissions reductions targets at levels based upon their self - interest despite the fact that any national target must be understood to be implicitly a position on two issues that can not be thought about clearly without considering ethical obligations.

What distinguishes ethical issues from economic and scientific arguments about climate change is that ethics is about duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others while economic and scientific arguments are usually understood to be about «value - neutral» «facts» which once established have usually been deployed in arguments against action on climate change based upon self - interest.

Unless nations specifically identify the equity principles that have guided their ghg emissions reductions, and the assumptions about warming limits entailed by their INDC, nations and citizens around the world who may be harmed by illigitmate uses of common pool resources have an insufficient factual basis to challenge the potentially unethical responses of nations to their ethical obligations.

Attorneys can not meet their basic ethical obligations to clients, courts, and the profession without understanding the tools in their hands — their smartphones, their email accounts, and their cloud - based software.

It is hoped that by engaging with law firms at their inception, and then on a triennial basis through the self - assessment process, the NSBS can provide firms support and guidance in fulfilling their ethical and regulatory obligations — and help them avoid the many quality of client service concerns that adequate management systems are proven to mitigate.

Goldstein said that while he doesn't feel it is currently an ethical obligation, it is a matter of professional responsibility: «The service I provide to clients is based on presenting the latest, most efficient and cost - effective options that allow me to maximize my experience and knowledge as a lawyer with individual clients.»

Our vision is to find ways to serve clients better: to bring down costs so that real people can afford us (and so we are better than the competition); to practice our profession ethically, based on deep reflection about what ethical obligations require of us in a changing world; and to do all of this while also living live good and fulfilled lives.

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