Regulating Climate Engineering: Paradigmatic Aspects of the Regulation of Ocean Fertilization

Markus, Till; Ginzky, Harald

doi:10.21552/cclr/2011/4/197

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“…CDRMIP's objective is to address issues related to CDR-induced climate reversibility and the potentials of the CDR to impact afforestation or reforestation and ocean alkalinisation. As the review results show, ocean geoengineering assessments (Markus and Ginsky 2011;Hale and Dilling 2011;Rayfuse et al 2008;Abate 2013), and carbon capture sequestration have drawn some special attention, while other CDR techniques are not subjected to special analysis, not even in the second generation of sources. Scientific research can inform the debate further in these areas.…”

Section: Inviting More Scientific and Empirical Inputmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ethics of Geoengineering: A Literature Review

Pamplany¹,

Gordijn

Brereton

2020

Sci Eng Ethics

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Geoengineering as a technological intervention to avert the dangerous climate change has been on the table at least since 2006. The global outreach of the technology exercised in a non-encapsulated system, the concerns with unprecedented levels and scales of impact and the overarching interdisciplinarity of the project make the geoengineering debate ethically quite relevant and complex. This paper explores the ethical desirability of geoengineering from an overall review of the existing literature on the ethics of geoengineering. It identifies the relevant literature on the ethics of geoengineering by employing a standard methodology. Based on various framing of the major ethical arguments and their subsets, the results section presents the opportunities and challenges at stake in geoengineering from an ethical point of view. The discussion section takes a keen interest in identifying the evolving dynamics of the debate, the grey areas of the debate, with underdeveloped arguments being brought to the foreground and in highlighting the arguments that are likely to emerge in the future as key contenders. It observes the semantic diversity and ethical ambiguity, the academic lop-sidedness of the debate, missing contextual setting, need for interdisciplinary approaches, public engagement, and region-specific assessment of ethical issues. Recommendations are made to provide a useful platform for the second generation of geoengineering ethicists to help advance the debate to more decisive domains with the required clarity and caution.

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Section: Inviting More Scientific and Empirical Inputmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ethics of Geoengineering: A Literature Review

Pamplany¹,

Gordijn

Brereton

2020

Sci Eng Ethics

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“…Second, the Contracting Parties to the 1972 London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (LC) and its 1996 London Protocol (LP) have taken steps to address marine geoengineering in the context of the law of the sea. In 2007, private activities involving ocean fertilization prompted the Contracting Parties to the LC/LP to issue a statement of concern and led to further study of the scientific and legal issues within this family of treaties (132,133). In 2008, they adopted a legally nonbinding resolution stating that ocean fertilization activities other than "legitimate scientific research" should not be allowed (134).…”

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“…Overall, however, significant gaps remain in the coverage of existing international and domestic legal frameworks with respect to geoengineering techniques. Legal analysis shows how existing legal norms provide an important frame of reference and set the terms of debate for the establishment of new instruments or the dynamic evolution of existing ones to address lacunae (119,132,146). In addition, given the diverse technical characteristics of proposed geoengineering methods and their effects, the emerging governance picture is one resembling a "patchwork quilt" (128).…”

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Solar Geoengineering: Social Science, Legal, Ethical, and Economic Frameworks

Flegal

Hubert

Morrow

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Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Solar geoengineering research in the social sciences and humanities has largely evolved in parallel with research in the natural sciences. In this article, we review the current state of the literature on the ethical, legal, economic, and social science aspects of this emerging area. We discuss issues regarding the framing and futures of solar geoengineering, empirical social science on public views and public engagement, the evolution of ethical concerns regarding research and deployment, and the current legal and economic frameworks and emerging proposals for the regulation and governance of solar geoengineering.

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“…Scholars, advocates and others frequently suggest that outdoor solar geoengineering activities that surpass certain scales not take place until certain conditions have been met [82,83,93,104,[120][121][122]125,141,160,[167][168][169][170][171][172]. Daniel Bodansky states that moratoria 'have the attraction of simplicity.…”

Section: Moratoriamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In some cases, support for moratoria is often implicit. The widespread call for 'governance before deployment'-as in the Oxford Principles [136][137][138]-indicates that the implementation of solar geoengineering should not occur until effective oversight is in place [5,95,160,169]. Others take a firmer line and argue for governance before outdoor experiments, which again would implicitly be a moratorium [139,159,175,176].…”

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Solar geoengineering to reduce climate change: a review of governance proposals

Reynolds

2019

Proc. R. Soc. A.

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Although solar geoengineering (alternatively ‘solar radiation management’ or ‘solar radiation modification’) appears to offer a potentially effective, inexpensive and technologically feasible additional response to climate change, it would pose serious physical risks and social challenges. Governance of its research, development and deployment is thus salient. This article reviews proposals for governing solar geoengineering. Its research may warrant dedicated governance to facilitate effectiveness and to reduce direct and socially mediated risks. Because states are not substantially engaging with solar geoengineering, non-state actors can play important governance roles. Although the concern that solar geoengineering would harmfully lessen abatement of greenhouse gas emissions is widespread, what can be done to reduce such displacement remains unclear. A moratorium on outdoor activities that would surpass certain scales is often endorsed, but an effective one would require resolving some critical, difficult details. In the long term, how to legitimately make decisions regarding whether, when and how solar geoengineering would be used is central, and suggestions how to do so diverge. Most proposals to govern commercial actors, who could provide goods and services for solar geoengineering, focus on intellectual property policy. Compensation for possible harm from outdoor activities could be through liability or a compensation fund. The review closes with suggested lines of future inquiry.

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Regulating Climate Engineering: Paradigmatic Aspects of the Regulation of Ocean Fertilization

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The Ethics of Geoengineering: A Literature Review

The Ethics of Geoengineering: A Literature Review

Solar Geoengineering: Social Science, Legal, Ethical, and Economic Frameworks

Solar geoengineering to reduce climate change: a review of governance proposals

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