http://m.reep.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/11/reep.reu011
Solar Geoengineering’s Brave New World: Thoughts on the Governance of an Unprecedented Technology Abstract Due to the failure of international efforts to limit atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, consideration is now being given to solar geoengineering—a deliberate intervention to limit global warming without altering the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases. In contrast to emission cuts, geoengineering is expected to be cheap, quick to lower temperature, and feasible through the use of a single intervention. However, geoengineering is an imperfect substitute for emission reductions and will likely have undesirable side effects, only some of which can be anticipated before geoengineering is deployed. Most importantly, because geoengineering can be undertaken unilaterally, it creates issues of governance: Who gets to decide if, when, and how geoengineering should be attempted? This article provides an introduction to the key issues surrounding the governance of this unprecedented technology. (JEL: Q54, F53, K33) © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] Rev Environ Econ Policy (2014) doi:10.1093/reep/reu011 First published online: July 11, 2014 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
