Book contents
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Climate Change and Solar Geoengineering
- 3 Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement
- 4 International Relations
- 5 International Law: Legal Norms, Principles, Custom, and Organizations
- 6 International Law: The Climate and Atmosphere
- 7 International Law: Human Rights
- 8 International Law: Other Agreements
- 9 US Law
- 10 Nonstate Governance
- 11 Nonstate Actors and Intellectual Property
- 12 International Compensation and Liability
- 13 A Path Forward
- 14 Conclusion
- Legal Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2019
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Climate Change and Solar Geoengineering
- 3 Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement
- 4 International Relations
- 5 International Law: Legal Norms, Principles, Custom, and Organizations
- 6 International Law: The Climate and Atmosphere
- 7 International Law: Human Rights
- 8 International Law: Other Agreements
- 9 US Law
- 10 Nonstate Governance
- 11 Nonstate Actors and Intellectual Property
- 12 International Compensation and Liability
- 13 A Path Forward
- 14 Conclusion
- Legal Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This brief final chapter offers some closing observations concerning solar geoengineering. Environmentalism is a diverse domain of thought, and its central norms – such as whether humans’ ideal role is treading as lightly as possible or being stewards of managed nature – are sometimes in tension. Solar geoengineering lies, in many ways, astride this division and its controversy should not be surprising. Yet my central concern is that the solar geoengineering discourse is unduly driven by intuition and ideology instead of empiricism and rationality. The seeming neglect and possible dismissal of solar geoengineering is a gamble that emissions abatement, adaptation, and negative emissions technologies will be sufficient to prevent dangerous climate change. Given the stakes, solar geoengineering should be taken seriously, including through governance that facilitates its responsible research, development, and – if warranted – use.
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- The Governance of Solar GeoengineeringManaging Climate Change in the Anthropocene, pp. 221 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019