Solar geoengineering: The view from just war/securitization theories

[Geoengineering News]

https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publications/solar-geoengineering-the-view-from-just-warsecuritization-theorie 

Rita Floyd

• Political Science and International Studies

Publication status	Accepted/In press - 26 Apr 2023

•  Abstract

As the world continues to fail to reduce and control global surface temperatures, the use of solar radiation management (SRM) technology by one actor or by a small coalition of actors is becoming increasingly likely. Yet, most of the social scientific literature on solar geoengineering does not tend to systematically engage with this possibility; scholars focus either on global governance, or on banning SRM usage and research altogether. On the margins of this debate, a handful of researchers have sought to bring insights from the just war tradition to the issue of uni- and mini-lateral SRM usage. This article is concerned with the contribution just war/securitization theories can make to our understanding of the debate surrounding climate engineering. It scrutinises and deepens existing attempts by just war scholars to examine the moral permissibility of uni-lateral and mini-lateral SRM usage, including from the perspective of Just Securitization Theory.

Journal	Journal of Global Security Studies		Source: University of Birmingham

[Adrian Hindes]

Since it looks like the paper is still behind an embargo, here's a link to an earlier draft version of that paper in case anyone is curious: 

The moral permissibility of unilateral solar radiation management Insights from Just Securitization Theory.docx | Rita Floyd - Academia.edu

I wonder if the example of Bill Gates being morally obligated to deploy SRM to save the Maldives made it to the published version.