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Environmental Values, Volume 25, Number 1 Climate Engineering and the Cessation Requirement: The Ethics of a Life-Cycle Author: Preston, Christopher J. Source: Environmental Values, Volume 25, Number 1, February 2016, pp. 91-107(17) Abstract: Much of the work on the ethics of climate engineering over the last few years has focused on the front-end of the potential timeline for climate intervention. Topics have included the initial taboo on bringing the discussion of climate engineering into the open, guidelines to put in place before commencing research, and governance arrangements before first deployment. While this work is clearly important, the current paper considers what insights can be gleaned from considering the tail-end, that is, by using the requirement for future cessation as a criterion for any acceptable climate engineering strategy. After showing that time-limited interventions are a key part of the rhetoric of leading climate engineering advocates, the paper examines the implications of imposing a 'cessation requirement' on solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal strategies. Consideration of a cessation requirement turns out to reveal a great deal about what ought to be happening now, before any decision to proceed with climate engineering deployment has been taken. Keywords: Climate engineering; carbon dioxide removal (CDR); cessation requirement; restoration;solar radiation management (SRM) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096327115X14497392134964 01 February 2016 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
