Summary/Abstract
See Chapter VI Guidline 7, beginning on page 181, addressing the intentional large-scale modification of the atmosphere. The draft guideline does not seek either to authorize or to prohibit carbon dioxide removal activities unless there is agreement among States to take such a course of action. It simply sets out the principle that such activities, if undertaken, should be conducted with prudence and caution. The reference to “prudence and caution” is inspired by the language of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the cases of Southern Blue Fin Tuna and the case of Max Plant. The draft guideline is cast in hortatory language, aimed at encouraging the development of rules to govern such activities, within the regimes competent in the various fields relevant to atmospheric pollution and atmospheric degradation.