Book contents
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Climate Change and Solar Geoengineering
- 3 Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement
- 4 International Relations
- 5 International Law: Legal Norms, Principles, Custom, and Organizations
- 6 International Law: The Climate and Atmosphere
- 7 International Law: Human Rights
- 8 International Law: Other Agreements
- 9 US Law
- 10 Nonstate Governance
- 11 Nonstate Actors and Intellectual Property
- 12 International Compensation and Liability
- 13 A Path Forward
- 14 Conclusion
- Legal Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2019
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- The Governance of Solar Geoengineering
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Climate Change and Solar Geoengineering
- 3 Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement
- 4 International Relations
- 5 International Law: Legal Norms, Principles, Custom, and Organizations
- 6 International Law: The Climate and Atmosphere
- 7 International Law: Human Rights
- 8 International Law: Other Agreements
- 9 US Law
- 10 Nonstate Governance
- 11 Nonstate Actors and Intellectual Property
- 12 International Compensation and Liability
- 13 A Path Forward
- 14 Conclusion
- Legal Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The most widespread – and arguably influential – concern regarding solar geoengineering has been that it would harmfully displace emissions abatement. Notably, there was a similar objection to adaptation, although one no longer hears it. Moral hazard and risk compensation offer imperfect analogies, and the empirical evidence for their magnitudes is mixed. Public opinion studies that ask people how they would respond to solar geoengineering consistently do not imply abatement displacement and often point toward the reverse, in which solar geoengineering increases support for abatement. The chapter identifies four genuine hazards regarding the relationships among the responses to climate change. Notably, all four are challenges to governance in general and are not limited to climate change policy. These imply some, albeit limited, policy options to reduce abatement displacement. Linkages between international abatement and solar geoengineering policies have some potential. I suggest that the abatement displacement concern is widespread for reasons largely unrelated to reducing climate change and its negative impacts, but instead is grounded in political coalitions and worldviews
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- The Governance of Solar GeoengineeringManaging Climate Change in the Anthropocene, pp. 32 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019