May we engineer the climate?

✍ Scribed by Daniel Bodansky

• Book ID: 104639804
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 817 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0009
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00142579

✦ Synopsis

Not only is the science of climate engineering uncertain; the legal issues are also highly uncertain. Although existing international law does not specifically limit the freedom of states to undertake climate engineering, the international community would likely demand a say should climate engineering move from the realm of speculation to concrete proposals. The experience of other environmental regimes, however, suggests that developing an international decision-making mechanism would be difficult, and that the international community might opt for a simple prohibition on climate engineering on grounds of 'precaution'.