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Engineering the Climate: Geoengineering as a Challenge to International Governance

2013
Scholarly Work
David A. Wirth
This essay examines the existing international governance structures to address geoengineering and concludes that they are inadequate to the task and makes recommendations for structural adaptations in international governance to address the problem.

Direct air capture of CO2 and climate stabilization: A model based assessment

2013
Scholarly Work
Chen Chen, Massimo Tavoni
This paper assesses the regional incentives in deploying DAC under different assumptions about international climate policy and introduces a “clean oil” market via DAC as a way to provide incentives to oil exporting countries.

A Matter of Scale: Regional Climate Engineering and the Shortfalls of Multinational Governance

2013
Scholarly Work
Tracy D. Hester
This article explores new ways to regulate climate engineering research through a cumulative bottom-up governance approach that would rely on networks of regional treaties, agreements and resolutions rather than a sweeping international convention.

Governing geoengineering research: why, when and how?

2013
Scholarly Work
Lisa Dilling, Rachel Hauser
This paper suggests three areas of concern that any geoengineering governance research framework must respond to: the direct physical risks of the research; the transparency and responsibility in decision; and the larger societal meanings.

Digging Deep: Property Rights in Subterranean Space and the Challenge of Carbon Capture and Storage

2013
Scholarly Work
Jill Morgan
This paper considers the extent of a surface landowner's rights above and below land and explores the treatment of underground space within the context of CCS in relation to differing jurisdictions, with particular attention paid to the U.S. and U.K.

Regulating Geoengineering in International Environmental Law

2013
Scholarly Work
Tuomas Kuokkanen , Yulia Yamineva
The article shows how regulating geoengineering activities, including ocean iron fertilization, through existing environmental protection regimes may lead to a governance and legal landscape that is fragmented, incoherent, and incomprehensive.

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Parkland Forest Management Framework

2013
Policy Proposal
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation has adopted a comprehensive parkland forest management plan that expressly recognizes the value of carbon sequestered in the city's green spaces and adopts management programs to sequester additional carbon.

Carbon Capture & Storage Summary Report of the Regulatory Framework Assessment

2013
Scientific Report
The Steering Committee of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Regulatory Framework Assessment
This report recommends regulatory changes related to the technical, environmental, safety, and monitoring requirements for the safe deployment of CCS as well as other actions to increase the body of knowledge on CCS-related topics.

International Law in the Anthropocene: Responding to the Geoengineering Challenge

2013
Scholarly Work
Karen N. Scott
This article critically assesses the regulatory regime currently being developed by the parties to the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention with respect to scientific research on ocean iron fertilization.

N.D. Admin. Code 43-05-01-01 et seq.

2013
Regulation
State of North Dakota
Provides permitting procedures and requirements for geologic storage of carbon dioxide, including environmental mandates, financial responsibility, recordkeeping and reporting.

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