Torres, Sara (2026) Do INGOs have a duty to reduce emissions? Insights from Consequentialism and Care Ethics to climate responsibility. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Societal demands for climate action tend to overlook International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) forgiving their carbon-intensive global operations for being philanthropic and humanitarian. The increased marketisation of the third sector requires a reevaluation of the ethical expectations and standards we place on non profit organisations. Moral frameworks like the ethics of care and consequentialism are frequently harnessed in the call for environmental responsibility. This literature however tends to overlook the third sector in particular in favour of individuals, for profit organisations, and public bodies. This paper spotlights the paradoxical fact that INGOs operations, although well intended, unavoidably contribute to climate change, a catalyst for the humanitarian issues they try to alleviate, and asks: To what extent is it ethically reasonable to expect NGOs to adopt sustainability targets and carbon-emission reduction strategies? The exploration of this dilemma, through consequentialist and care ethics moral frameworks intends to demonstrate the imperative duty of carbon emission reduction strategies by INGOs and advocate for their adoption in a voluntary, pragmatic, proportional, attentive, responsive, responsible, competent, respectful, and preventative way, up to the point where begin to hinder the pursuit of their main humanitarian mission.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | McKeown, M.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2026 09:51 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2026 09:51 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/788 |
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