Consensus, Certainty, and Catastrophe: Discourse, Governance, and Ocean Iron Fertilization
This article explains how a subjective understanding of certainty influenced global ocean governance as related to ocean iron fertilization.
H. 6011 Substitute A – House Resolution on Geoengineering Study
This bill creates a 5 Member Commission to study and provide recommendations to the state on the regulation and licensure of geoengineering, which includes ocean iron fertilization.
Ocean Iron Fertilization and Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Food: Leveraging International and Domestic Law Protections to Enhance Access to Salmon in the Pacific Northwest
This article addresses whether indigenous communities like the Haida in the U.S. Pacific Northwest region could assert a legal right to employ OIF as a strategy to help restore a cultural food source that has been depleted due to climate change.
Barometer Rising: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety as a Model for Holistic International Regulation of Ocean Fertilization Projects and Other Forms of Geoengineering
This note argues that there is a strong comparison between biotechnology and geoengineering, and that the current regulatory framework for biosafety can serve as a model for similar regulation of ocean fertilization.
It’s Getting Hot in Here: A Look into Whether Ocean Iron Fertilization is Legally Viable in the United States
This article analyzes the legal status of ocean iron fertilization under United States laws and international laws, in the context of the Planktos experiment, in order to shed light on whether this strategy could be legally viable.
Deployment of Geoengineering by the Private and Public Sector: Can the Risks of Geoengineering Ever Be Effectively Regulated?
This article focuses on ocean fertilization and its transboundary impacts.
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.
A Green Herring: How Current Ocean Fertilization Regulation Distracts from Geoengineering Research
This article proposes that nations tackle the dangers posed by ocean fertilization experiments together with other geoengineering activities, in the context of combatting climate change.
Climate Engineering Field Research: The Favorable Setting of International Environmental Law
This article examines how existing international environmental law may regulate and influence field testing of climate engineering, specifically the riskier methods that include ocean iron fertilization.
Engineering a Solution to Climate Change: Suggestions for an International Treaty Regime Governing Geoengineering
This Note examines the international law that could govern geoengineering programs, with a focus on ocean iron fertilization and how international law must require that geoengineering be done on a multilateral scale.