Policy Brief: Governing Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
This policy brief identifies the governance challenges around marine carbon dioxide removal.
Oceans in Transition: Incorporating Climate-Change Impacts into Environmental Impact Assessment for Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
This Article reviews the existing international law and policy framework for environmental impact assessment in areas beyond national jurisdiction, with a look at how ocean iron fertilization fits into the existing framework.
Ocean Iron Fertilization and Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Food: Leveraging International and Domestic Law Protections to Enhance Access to Salmon in the Pacific Northwest
This article addresses whether indigenous communities like the Haida in the U.S. Pacific Northwest region could assert a legal right to employ OIF as a strategy to help restore a cultural food source that has been depleted due to climate change.
Barometer Rising: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety as a Model for Holistic International Regulation of Ocean Fertilization Projects and Other Forms of Geoengineering
This note argues that there is a strong comparison between biotechnology and geoengineering, and that the current regulatory framework for biosafety can serve as a model for similar regulation of ocean fertilization.
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Statement of concern by the the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission regarding ocean fertilization on October 19th, 2012.
Sowing Seeds Uncertain: Ocean Iron Fertilization, Climate Change, and the International Environmental Law Framework
This article proposes a legal framework to harmonize the overlapping and conflicting international regulatory regime on ocean iron fertilization.
Iron Fertilization: A Scientific Review with International Policy Recommendations
This paper examines the effectiveness and appropriateness of iron fertilization in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
Legal Posture of Ocean Iron Fertilization Under International Law
This is an article from the International Environmental Law Committee newsletter that provides an overview of the legal posture of ocean iron fertilization (OIF) activities under international environmental law.