Challenges and Opportunities of Solar Geoengineering for Climate Governance

[Geoengineering News]

https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrveroeff/content/titleinfo/14444985

Authors: Furini, Francesco ; Finus, Michael

Abstract

This review characterizes the governance challenges arising from the potential deployment of solar geoengineering. We survey existing theoretical models that analyze the strategic incentives such technologies generate. In particular, we examine the conditions under which the “free-driver problem”, where a single nation or small group of nations initiates solar geoengineering without the consent of the international community, might be avoided or mitigated and explore the implications for international climate governance when mitigation and solar geoengineering policies interact.

Source: Graz Economics Papers