The regulation of Geoengineering: fifth report of session 2009-10 report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

House of Commons papers 221 2009-10

Corporate Author:

Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Science and Technology Committee

Author:

Phil Willis (chairman)

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

Geoengineering describes activities specifically and deliberately designed to effect a change in the global climate with the aim of minimising or reversing anthropogenic climate change. The Committee gives three reasons why they believe regulation is needed. First, in the future some geoengineering techniques may allow a single country to unilaterally affect the climate. Second, some geoengineering testing is already underway. Third, we may need geoengineering in the event of a failure to reduce greenhouse gases we are faced with highly disruptive climate change. The Committee does not call for an international treaty but for the groundwork for regulatory arrangements to begin. The UN is the route by which, eventually, they envisage the regulatory framework operating but first the UK and other governments need to push geoengineering up the international agenda and get processes moving

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