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Carbon Dioxide Removal

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques, or negative emission technologies (NETs), are a suite of natural and technological pathways to remove and sequester carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air. Unlike carbon capture and storage, these techniques remove CO₂ directly from the atmosphere or enhance natural carbon sinks.
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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.

A Napoleonic Approach to Climate Change: The Geoengineering Branch

2013
Scholarly Work
Anthony E. Chavez
This article reviews the domestic and international laws that might control climate engineering research and testing in the United States and presents considerations for a regulatory scheme that would foster further research and testing.

Regulating Ocean Fertilization under International Law: The Risks

2013
Scholarly Work
Karen N. Scott
This paper explores the regulatory regime for ocean fertilization under the dumping regime, which comprises the 1972 London Convention and 1996 Protocol.

Regulating Geoengineering Research through Domestic Environmental Protection Frameworks: Reflections on the Recent Canadian Ocean Fertilization Case

2013
Scholarly Work
Neil Craik, Jason Blackstock, Anna-Maria Hubert
This article considers the application of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) to a controversial ocean iron fertilization project off the coast of British Columbia.

A Prognosis, and Perhaps a Plan, for Geoengineering Governance

2013
Scholarly Work
Jane C. S. Long
This article argues that governments should plan to use collaboration on natural disasters as a vehicle for developing the institutional capacity to manage the global climate.

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.

Does Geoengineering Present a Moral Hazard?

2013
Scholarly Work
Albert C. Lin
This article examines the critical question of whether geoengineering presents a moral hazard by drawing on empirical studies of moral hazard and risk compensation and on the psychology literature of heuristics and cultural cognition.

Implementing the Precautionary Principle for Climate Engineering

2013
Scholarly Work
Elizabeth Tedsen , Gesa Homann
This article provides an overview of debate in how to apply the precautionary principle to climate engineering (in part carbon dioxide removal) and what the precautionary principle means in a climate engineering context.

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.

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.

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