Humanitarianism 2.0

New Ethics for the Climate Emergency

Hugo Slim

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English

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
01 February 2025

Aid & relief programmes; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; Global warming

This book spells out a new framework for humanitarian aid in the long emergency of climate change. Looking ahead to the massive needs of the late 2020s and the 2030s, Hugo Slim shows how current ethics and action in the sector are necessary, but not sufficient, for the new moral and operational challenges of our planetary crisis.

Humanitarianism 2.0 offers a series of practical ethical pathways for aid workers and organisations to reimagine and redesign their purpose in the increasing number of climate-related disasters around the world. Slim expands the fundamental principle of humanity to include the protection of nature in humanitarian ethics, and also faces up to the hard challenge of impartiality and prioritisation in a universal emergency. He then recognises anticipation, adaptation, mitigation and locally led aid as humanitarian obligations in climate-related disasters.

Like everything else in the climate and nature crisis, humanitarian ethics need adaptation. Slim's bold, smart and much-needed proposals show the way.

By: Hugo Slim
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 126mm,
ISBN: 9781911723707
ISBN 10: 1911723707
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and at the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the Blavatnik School of Government. He is also a Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and at the International Academy of the Red Cross and Red Crescent at Suzhou University.

Reviews for Humanitarianism 2.0: New Ethics for the Climate Emergency

'A remarkable book. Slim makes an engaging argument for a more current, ethical and effective paradigm for humanitarian action in the age of the ""polycrisis."" An absolute must-read for anyone working in the climate, development and humanitarian sectors.' -- Aditya V. Bahadur, Director, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre 'A new, nature-positive paradigm of humanitarian response to climate crises is required. Our response, as Slim powerfully argues, must be integrative and inclusive, merging both human and ecological objectives. This is a must-read and a lighthouse to guide our collective reset for much-enhanced climate resilience.' -- Changhua Wu, Chair, Governing Council of Asia Pacific Water Forum 'A compelling case for integrating the humanitarian and environmental agendas at a time when we are finally beginning to recognise that the wellbeing of people is intertwined with, and dependent on, the health of nature. Our only chance of securing a people-positive future is through a nature-positive one.' -- Marco Lambertini, Convener, Nature Positive Initiative