Solar Geoengineering Could Be Consistent with International Law

[Andrew Lockley]

https://works.bepress.com/jessreyn/30/?s=09

Abstract

Besides emissions reductions, CDR, and adaptation, the only remaining means to limit climate change impacts is solar geoengineering. While it could greatly reduce climate change, including in ways that the other responses cannot, solar geoengineering also poses serious environmental risks and social challenges. For these reasons, it has been controversial, including with respect to international law. In this chapter, I advocate a forceful case that the global testing or deployment of solar geoengineering could be consistent with international law. I secondarily argue that international law even encourages it. To be clear, the fact that solar geoengineering could be consistent with international law does not mean that it necessarily would be. Like all other activities of significant scale, it could be conducted in ways that would be contrary to international law.

Disciplines

• Environmental Law and
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• International Law

Publication Date

2020

Editor

Benoit Mayer and Alexander Zahar

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Citation Information

Jesse Reynolds. "Solar Geoengineering Could Be Consistent with International Law" CambridgeDebating Climate Law (2020)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jessreyn/30/