Governança em Geoengenharia

Este documento expressa a preocupação em se estabelecer regras de governança para as atuações em geoengenharia, de modo a inibir iniciativas individuais.

Climate change policies at both the national and international levels have traditionally focused on

measures to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to adapt to the actual or anticipated

impacts of changes in the climate. As a participant in several international agreements on climate

change, the United States has joined with other nations to express concern about climate change.

Some recent technological advances and hypotheses, generally referred to as “geoengineering”

technologies, have created alternatives to traditional approaches to mitigating climate change. If

deployed, these new technologies could modify the Earth’s climate on a large scale. Moreover,

these new technologies may become available to foreign governments and entities in the private sector to use unilaterally—without authorization from the United States government or an international treaty—as was done in the summer of 2012. (grifo meu)

Conclusion

Geoengineering is an emerging field that, like other areas of scientific innovation, requires careful

deliberation by policymakers, and possibly, the development or amendment of international

agreements, federal laws, or federal regulations. Currently, many geoengineering technologies are

at the conceptual and research stages, and their effectiveness at reducing global temperatures has yet to be proven. Very few studies have been published documenting the cost, environmental

effects, socio-political impacts, and legal implications of geoengineering. Nevertheless, if

geoengineering technologies are deployed, they are expected to have the potential to cause

significant transboundary effects.

Some foreign governments and private entities have expressed an interest in pursuing

geoengineering projects, largely out of concern over the slow progress of greenhouse gas

reductions under the international climate change agreements, the possible existence of climate

“tipping points,” and the apparent political or economic obstacles to pursuing aggressive

domestic greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. However, in the United States, there is limited

federal involvement in, or oversight of, geoengineering. Consequently, to the extent that some

federal agencies and U.S. states have begun addressing geoengineering projects, they are doing so in a largely piecemeal fashion.

If the U.S. government opts to address geoengineering at the federal level, there are several

approaches that are immediately apparent. First, it may continue to leave geoengineering policy

development in the hands of federal agencies and states. Second, it might impose a temporary or

permanent moratorium on geoengineering, or on particular geoengineering technologies, out of

concern that its risks outweigh its benefits. Third, it might develop a national policy on

geoengineering by authoring or amending laws. Fourth, it could work with the international

community to craft an international approach to geoengineering by writing or amending

international agreements. That the government can play a substantial role in the development of

new technologies has been manifested in such areas as nanotechnology, nuclear science, and

genetic engineering. (grifo meu)

o documento na integra pode ser obtido aqui:

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41371.pdf

ou aqui: Governance and Technology Policy

no site de Rosalind Peterson, chamado de California Skywatch (Agriculture Defense Coalition) tem muita informação interessante. e lemos:

Global Geoengineering Governance: Currently the U.S. Government, our military, NASA, NOAA (other U.S. agencies), any city, county, state, private indivduals, corporations, foreign governments, and foreign corporations, can initiate any type of geoengineering experiments without public knowledge, consent, government restrictions or public debate.

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