 The backward looking notion of collective responsibility cited above is what most philosophers have in mind when they talk about collective responsibility. But during the past several years there has been a growing interest in what has come to be known as forward looking collective responsibility or forward looking collective moral responsibility. Forward looking collective responsibility, unlike its backward looking counterpart, does not focus on whether a particular collective agent caused harm in the sense relevant to moral blameworthiness. Nor does it involve itself with blame in general. Instead, it focuses on what, if anything, the agent can be expected to do with respect to remedying the harm and preventing its reoccurrence. Hence, it is sometimes referred to as remedial responsibility and incorporated into larger controversies about the scope of our duties to respond.