What is being billed as an international conference on climate change will be held Nov. 20-23, event organizer Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research said.

The conference is titled, "Facing Climate Change with a Renewed Environmental Ethic."

"Our goal is to promote a transformation in ethics which allows humans to better address environmental challenges such as climate change.." event organizers said in a news release.

"In order to do this we invited a group of 30 experts from all parts of the world to gather and present their most recent research and to brainstorm in the search for new global solutions. Presenters will be focusing on the ethics of three major power centers in modern society: Business, government, and civil society. Among several world renowned figures, four keynote speakers will address critical issues affecting our survival...," according to the news release.

Participating in the conference are:

• J. Baird Callicott is Chair of the department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. He taught the world's first course in environmental ethics in 1971, and is the author of the world acclaimed Beyond the Land Ethic (1999).

• Marjorie Kelly is a business journalist, co-founder and for 20 years the publisher of Business Ethics magazine, best known for its annual listing of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens. Kelly is author of The Divine Right of Capital (2001), which offers groundbreaking ideas on how to move to a more humane, democratic corporate design.

• Laura Westra is Professor Emerita in Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Canada, where she teaches environmental law. In 1992 she founded the Global Ecological Integrity Group, and is the author of 19 books, including Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations (2008).

• David Abram is the author of award-winning The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (1997), the founder of the Alliance for Wild Ethics, and of numerous published essays on the cultural causes and consequences of the current threats to our survival.

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