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
8 - International Law: Other Agreements
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
Because of its transboundary effects and because states will be the primary actors, large-scale solar geoengineering and its governance are matters of international law. This is the final of four chapters that consider international legal rules, here those that fall outside the previous chapters’ scopes. Multilateral agreements govern activities and impacts in areas beyond national jurisdiction, including Antarctica, outer space, and the oceans. The comprehensive UN Convention on the Law of the Sea governs solar geoengineering that would take place in the marine environment or would likely result in deleterious effects there. The parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, a far-reaching agreement, have issued three nonbinding decisions concerning geoengineering, the only such negotiated consensuses from representatives of most countries. The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques proscribes solar geoengineering's hostile use. Among the four major international legal forums that help resolve disputes in broad ranges of issues, the UN Security Council could address problematic or contentious solar geoengineering.
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- The Governance of Solar GeoengineeringManaging Climate Change in the Anthropocene, pp. 114 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019