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.
Matthew P J Oreska, Karen J McGlathery, Igino M Emmer, Brian A Needelman, Stephen Emmett-Mattox, Stephen Crooks, J Patrick Megonigal, Doug Myers
This is a commentary on the article ‘Geoengineering with seagrasses: is credit due where credit is given?' that speaks to a concern in the article about a carbon crediting methodology over-allocating carbon credits for seagrass.
This article suggests that the governance challenges for climate engineering should be thought of as less of a slippery slope than an ‘uphill struggle’ and that there is a need for governance that incentivizes, rather than constrains, research.
This article is a response to the Macreadie (et al) challenge of the ‘Geoengineering with seagrasses: is credit due where credit is given?’ paper, in which a proposal for an international protocol to quantify carbon burial in seagrass is presented.
Peter I Macreadie, Carolyn J Ewers-Lewis, Ashley A Whitt, Quinn Ollivier, Stacey M Trevathan-Tackett, Paul Carnell, Oscar Serrano
This comment seeks to clarify some of the questions raised by Johannessen and Macdonald, with an aim to promote discussion in the scientific community about the evidence for carbon sequestration by seagrasses with a view to awarding carbon credits.
This study provides an overview of North Korea's efforts and its interaction with South Korean and international organizations on reforestation, and identifies institutional aspects that hinder implementation of cooperative governance arrangements.
This paper suggests that national strategies to promote negative emissions will remain absent until the international climate regime formalizes rules and incentives for such efforts, recognizing them as legitimate national contributions.
This paper provides a roadmap for South Korea’s CCS legal and regulatory framework, including both legislative and government agency centered proposals.
A.K. Magnan, R. Billé, L. Bopp, V.I. Chalastani, W.W.L. Cheung, C.M. Duarte, R.D. Gates, J. Hinkel, J.-O. Irisson, E. Mcleod, F. Micheli, J.J. Middelburg, A. Oschlies, H.-O. Pörtner, G.H. Rau, P. Williamson, J.-P. Gattuso
This paper provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of 13 ocean-based climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, including ocean fertilization, alkalization, and hybrid land/ocean methods such as marine BECCS and biochar.