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Human society is facing great challenges to address global climate change. How to move the international climate process forward is still a serious problem for politicians. Geoengineering's, so called Plan B to cope with climate change has attracted attentions of the international community with a lot of debate on its impact, risks from an ethical view as well as global governance at the level. In this paper, we focus on some important issues of geoengineering including the definition, characteristics, ethics and global governance, etc. and then put forward some suggestions for China's considerations.

Climate Change is a scientific fact, caused by rising CO₂ levels. However, the reason why those emissions have risen is based on values such as greed and apathy. Those are spiritual issues and so the role of faith communities is important in combatting climate change. The most recent reports from the IPCC tell us that we have 11 years to make a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewables. This is a transformation of society, including both personal life-style change and change at a political and commercial level. Faith communities gather every week and are in every town and village across the planet. They can connect the wealthiest boardroom with the poorest rural village impacted by climate change…

The sharing economy may be an opportunity to respond to real societal needs through the mutualization of resources and to encourage new communities through the democratization of power. Mutualization and democratization do not guarantee the ethical nature of this movement. Our research question is under what conditions the sharing economy can present the ethical dimensions highlighted by sharing-related literature. To answer that question, we explore the theoretical and empirical context of crowdfunding (CF) and focus on the comparative analysis of five reward- and equity-based CF platforms. This study emphasizes the conditions needed for ethical CF and, more generally, for an ethical sharing economy: the possibility to give gratuitously; the pursuit of a societal purpose; cooperation within and between groups of actors; long-term stability of spaces and times dedicated to cooperation; virtual and possibly physical arenas of cooperation; and people dedicated to cooperation.