The International Legal Framework for Climate Engineering
This paper describes international law which is applicable to climate engineering, with a focus on international environmental law, and provides recommendations for future developments.
Geoengineering: Basic science and ongoing research efforts in China
This paper introduces an ongoing geoengineering research project in China supported by the National Key Basic Research Program, which is investigating the physical mechanisms, climate impacts, and risk and governance of geoengineering schemes.
Impacts, risks, and governance of climate engineering
This paper identifies how China should join in the discussion on governance relating to climate engineering (CE), including participation in current international schemes and potential global governance frameworks that include CE regulations.
Clearing the Air on ‘Geoengineering’ and Intellectual Property Rights Towards a framework approach
This paper focuses on patents and trade secrets as the most relevant categories of intellectual property to climate engineering (CE), and develops a framework within which to situate IP-related concerns, specifically as related to DAC and OIF.
Climate Geoengineering and the Role of Public Deliberation: A Comment on the us National Academy of Sciences’ Recommendations on Public Participation
This article outlines some options for public deliberation on climate geoengineering and important design considerations in response to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' geoengineering reports.
International EIA Law and Geoengineering: Do Emerging Technologies Require Special Rules?
This article explores the adequacy of the international rules on environmental impact assessments (EIA) to contribute to geoengineering governance.
Assessing Scientific Legitimacy: The Case of Marine Geoengineering
This brief recommends that parties to the LC-LP adopt legally binding governance transparency mechanisms and create independent assessment panels to remedy gaps in marine geoengineering governance.
Global Experimentalist Governance, International Law and Climate Change Technologies
This article investigates the opportunities and barriers to developing global experimentalist governance approaches in the international climate change regime, focusing on the framework for marine geoengineering under the London Protocol.
Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence
This paper aims to elucidate major issues around additionality, leakage, and permanence in the design of policy for sequestration of soil carbon, and to identify potential perverse outcomes and inefficiencies in some of the current policy approaches.
The International Politics of Climate Engineering: A Review and Prospectus for International Relations
This paper offers an overview of the academic literature on international politics of climate engineering, including themes around unilateral implementation, the concern that it could undermine emissions cuts, the 'slippery slope,' and governance.