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Extract This chapter explores one such activity, geoengineering scientific research, and examines the recent and emerging regime at both the international and the regional levels designed to regulate this controversial use of the ocean commons. It will focus on the law of the sea as developed under both the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (unclos)4 and the 1996 Protocol5 to the 1972 London Convention6 as it relates to regulating geoengineering marine scientific research. In particular, this chapter will highlight the various underlying tensions associated with managing geoengineering as a scientific research issue. In light of the location of a number of geoengineering experiments in the Southern Ocean, and the fact that this region accounts for 40 percent of the global uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide,7 this paper will also examine the controls of scientific research developed under the 1959 Antarctic Treaty8 and the 1991 Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty.9 This chapter will critique the efficacy of the evolving regulatory framework for geoengineering research and assess its fitness for purpose in light of the risks this activity poses. It will conclude with some observations on the relationship between the geoengineering msr regime and the bbnj Agreement. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-07spHpG1GEZnQqTC2YYuVM41zrZotE5Gq-TLbguM_PSVw%40mail.gmail.com.
