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
6 - International Law: The Climate and Atmosphere
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 second of four chapters that consider international legal rules, here regarding the climate and the atmosphere. Climate change is, and solar geoengineering would be, foremost atmospheric phenomena. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its protocols – the central legal regime for international cooperation to limit climate change and its impacts – offer surprisingly limited guidance for solar geoengineering. However, the regime could provide an institutional site for future multilateral governance. Some provisions of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (and their protocols), which regulate substances that contribute to stratospheric ozone depletion and to acid rain, respectively, would be applicable, depending on circumstances. The International Law Commission has approved Draft Guidelines on the Protection of the Atmosphere, one of which addresses activities aimed at its intentional large-scale modification.
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- The Governance of Solar GeoengineeringManaging Climate Change in the Anthropocene, pp. 92 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019