May we engineer the climate?

Climatic Change

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-321

  Bodansky, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENT MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEGISLATION;

EID: 0029659536     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00142579     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. U.N. Environment Programme: 1980, Provisions for Cooperation between States in Weather Modification, Decision 8/7/A of the Governing Council, 29 Apr. 1980.
2. Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, U.N. Treaty Ser. 1108, 151 (entered into force 5 Oct. 1978).
3. O'Riordan, T. and Cameron, J. (eds.): 1994, Interpreting the Precautionary Principle, Cameron and May, London, 315 pp.
4. Weiss, E. B.: 1989, In Fairness to Future Generations: International Law, Common Patrimony and Intergenerational Equity, Transnational, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 385 pp.
5. In an analogous situation, New Zealand's and Australia's attempts to challenge recent French nuclear tests in the South Pacific proved unsuccessful.
6. U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, U.N. Doc. A/AC.237/18 (Part II), Add. 1, reprinted in Internat. Legal Materials 31, 851 (1992).
7. Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, U.N. Treaty Ser. 610, 205 (adopted 27 Jan. 1967, entered into force 10 Oct. 1967).
8. U.N. Doc. A/CONF.62/122, adopted 10 Dec. 1982, reprinted in Internat. Legal Materials 21, 1261 (1982).
9. Ocean fertilization would also be consistent with the London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, which applies only to the deliberate disposal of wastes at sea, not to the "placement of matter for a purpose other than the mere disposal thereof", Art. III(1)(b)(ii), U.N. Treaty Ser. 1046, 120 (adopted 29 Dec. 1972, entered into force 30 Aug. 1975).
10. Antarctic Treaty, U.N. Treaty Ser. 402, 71 (adopted 1 Dec. 1959, entered into force 23 June 1961).
11. Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, U.N. Treaty Ser. 33, 3476 (adopted 20 May 1980, entered into force 7 Apr. 1982).
12. Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, adopted 4 Oct. 1991, reprinted in Internat. Legal Materials 30, 1455 (1991).
13. Although states cause transboundary pollution on a regular basis, the difference is that the transboundary effects of climatic engineering would be intentional, not inadvertent.
14. Adopted 13 Nov. 1979, entered into force 16 March 1983, reprinted in Internat. Legal Materials 18, 1442 (1979).
15. Critical loads are defined as "the highest load that will not cause chemical changes leading to long-term harmful effects on the most sensitive ecological ecosystems" in a particular area. Levy, M. A.: 1995, 'International Co-operation to Combat Acid Rain', Green Globe Yearbook 1995, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, pp. 59-68.
16. Taubenfeld, H. J.: 1977, 'The Legal Uncertainties: A Lawyer Responds', in W. A. Thomas (ed.), Legal and Scientific Uncertainties of Weather Modification, p. 69.
17. Wellington Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, adopted 2 June 1988, U.M. Doc. AMR/SCM/88/78, reprinted in Internat. Legal Materials 27, 868 (1988).