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A Rights-Based Approach to Governance of Climate Geoengineering

2020
Scholarly Work
Railla Veronica D. Puno
This Article explores a rights-based approach for the governance of geoengineering in international law, including the impetus, rationale, and options for implementation.

Moral Conflicts of several “Green” terrestrial Negative Emission Technologies regarding the Human Right to Adequate Food – A Review

2019
Scholarly Work
Patrick Hohlwegler
This paper investigates whether BECCS, afforestation/reforestation, and enhanced weathering would cause moral conflicts regarding the human right to adequate food if implemented on a scale sufficient to limit global warming “to well below 2 C”.

Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations

2019
Scholarly Work
Kyle Powys Whyte
This paper focuses on the role of indigenous peoples in the geoengineering discourse and frames the challenges with identifying indigenous consent to geoengineering activities.

Normative issues of geoengineering technologies

2019
Scholarly Work
Clare Heyward
This chapter, from the book Managing Global Warming (2019), gives a brief overview of the emergence of the idea of negative emissions technologies in climate change policy and the normative issues—questions of values—that they might raise.

Safeguarding Against Environmental Injustice: 1.5°C Scenarios, Negative Emissions, and Unintended Consequences

2018
Scholarly Work
Natalie Jones
This article argues that environmental and climate justice concerns need to be accounted for in the design of policy measures for keeping warming below 1.5°C, and outlines policy guidance for safeguarding against unintended consequences.

Climate engineering and human rights

2018
Scholarly Work
Toby Svoboda, Holly Jean Buck, Pablo Suarez
In this Forum, three scholars discuss how climate engineering will pose novel human rights challenges, and may well force reconsideration of how human rights are applied as a guide to action.

Human rights and climate engineering policy

2017
Scholarly Work
Jesse L. Reynolds
This is a presentation from the Climate Engineering Conference 2017 (CEC17) on human rights and climate engineering.

Geoengineering: rights, risks and ethics

2017
Scholarly Work
Sam Adelman
This article examines the governance of geoengineering and the extent to which international environmental law and human rights law might be used to regulate the research and deployment of geoengineering.

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