ICE - ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/how-it-works on geo engineering and climate manipulation supported on achademical and political concern on the subject, help us getting it... We consider that there is a need for international regulation to ensure that any geoengineering research and deployment activities are pursued responsibly, in particular for those technologies that have trans-boundary implications. We therefore welcome the Committee’s recommendations for more international collaboration and co-ordination towards developing robust international instruments and regulatory frameworks to cover such diverse, complex and potentially ‘planetchanging’technologies. However, the current low level of understanding of the risks and impacts of geoengineering options and the present early development stage of technologies, means that it would be difficult at the present time to formulate effective or appropriate regulatory regimes for geoengineering research and deployment to 2 cover all possibilities that might receive serious attention. Any future regulatory framework would also need to include flexibility to take account of new findings and developments as they arise. We recognise that the diversity of geoengineering techniques render it unlikely that a comprehensive, overarching governance framework will be appropriate, and that different techniques may need different governance arrangements. Furthermore, the extent to which geoengineering activities are covered by existing regulations is unclear and a first step must be, therefore, to address this uncertainty and perform a gap analysis. official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm79/7936/7936.pdf I argue that norms to govern deployment of geoengineering systems will be needed soon. The standard instruments for establishing such norms, such as treaties, are unlikely to be effective in constraining geoengineers because the interests of key players diverge and it is relatively easy for countries to avoid inconvenient international commitments and act unilaterally. Instead, efforts to craft new norms ‘bottom up’ will be more effective. Such an approach, which would change the underlying interests of key countries and thus make them more willing to adopt binding norms in the future, will require active, open research programmes and assessments of geoengineering. Meaningful research may also require actual trial deployment of geoengineering systems so that norms are informed by relevant experience and command respect through use. Standard methods for international assessment organized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are unlikely to yield useful evaluations of geoengineering options because the most important areas for assessment lie in the improbable, harmful, and unexpected side effects of geoengineering, not the ‘consensus science’ that IPCC does well. I also suggest that real-world geoengineering will be a lot more complex and expensive than currently thought because simple interventions—such as putting reflective particles in the stratosphere—will be combined with many other costlier interventions to offset nasty side effects. oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/2/322.abstract UK MPs Call For Regulation Of Geoengineering The UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee has recommended that the UN be urged to take up the regulation of solar radiation management. Climate manipulation must be regulated at the UN level to avoid countries taking matters into their own hands, says a committee of MPs International rules are necessary to prevent individual countries taking unilateral action to control the earth’s climate say MPs. The report by the Science and Technology Committee said small-scale geoengineering testing was already underway and could be necessary if the ‘Plan A’ of emissions reduction fails. ‘Geoengineering could affect the entire planet and it would be foolish to ignore its potential to minimise or reverse human caused climate change,’ said Committee Chairman Phil Willis MP. climos/note_detail.php?pid=177
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