Chinese Ethical Research On Climate Change

Climate change problems emerge in the process of human development, both influenced by natural factors and human activities.Dealing with climate change is not only environmental problems and development problems, but also essentially ethical issues. The issue of climate change closely related to development stage of the country, way of life, population scale, resource endowment and international industrial division of labor and so on. In the long run, climate change issues should be tackled in the process of development. Climate change involved common interests around the world.More importantly,it is connected with interests of developing counties and people’s welfare. In the process of response to climate change.Development stage and basic needs of developing countries must take into consideration.Developing countries have a history of less emissions, lack of funds and technology, and the lack of ability to cope with climate change who bear the large amounts of emissions and take low position in the globalization and international industrial chain.On the international negotiations about climate changes, The UN signed five basic principles in the United Nations framework on climate change.The five basic principles claimed that the international communities should obey the basic ethical rules.However,different countries in historical stage of development response to climate change position differently.The four targets of emissions behind which ethical differences works in the face of climate change they put forward sometimes is so hard to meet the standard. China is a big developing country, when dealing with the issue of climate change, China must take on the responsibility according to its capabilities,which can find a better balance between environment and development,offering a ethical ideas generally accepted by international community.Therefore,China improve legislation in climate change and donate to research and education,trying to overcome the difficulties in ethical issue in climate change.China takes great efforts exploring domestic markets in carbon,which essentially enriches the theory of climate changes.