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Kian Mintz-Woo

Senior Lecturer

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9216-9561
20162026

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Biography

Kian Mintz-Woo works on moral and normative issues, both fundamental (in moral ontology and philosophical methodology) and applied (in climate ethics and climate economics). Recently, he has been working on questions related to carbon taxes in the context of COVID-19; the role of philosophers in public policy; global versus local social costs of carbon; and loss and damage in the post-Paris climate policy space. Until August of 2020, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University at the University Center for Human Values. Since then, he has been an honorary Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Since September 2020, he is a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) and since 2024, Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) at University College Cork, Ireland.

In 2025, he was named Early-Career Researcher of the Year at University College Cork. In 2026, he was elected to the Young Academy Ireland.

His favourite food is lemon sorbet

External positions

Guest Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg

1 Apr 2021 → …

UCC Futures (primary)

  • Sustainability Institute

Other research affiliations

  • UCC Futures - Sustainability Institute
  • Centre for Law and the Environment
  • UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures
  • Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21)
  • UCC Futures - Future Humanities Institute (incl. RHL)

PhD Supervision

  • Available for PhD supervision

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  2. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  3. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  4. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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  • Justice considerations in climate research

    Zimm, C., Mintz-Woo, K., Brutschin, E., Hanger-Kopp, S., Hoffmann, R., Kikstra, J. S., Kuhn, M., Min, J., Muttarak, R., Pachauri, S., Patange, O., Riahi, K. & Schinko, T., Jan 2024, In: Nature Climate Change. 14, 1, p. 22-30 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Climate change and the threat to civilization

    Steel, D., DesRoches, C. T. & Mintz-Woo, K., 18 Oct 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 42, e2210525119.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/Debate

    Open Access

  • What do climate change winners owe, and to whom?

    Mintz-Woo, K. & Leroux, J., 23 Nov 2021, In: Economics and Philosophy. 37, 3, p. 462-483 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • On Parfit’s Ontology

    Mintz-Woo, K., 3 Sept 2018, In: Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 48, 5, p. 707-725 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets

    Mintz-Woo, K., 2026, In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 43, 4, p. 906-930 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
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