Government Response to the House of Commons The Regulation of Geoengineering

Em vários países o assunto de geoengenharia está sendo tratado com a devida seriedade há anos. no Brasil, poucas pessoas sabem o que é geoengenharia. Neste documento tenta-se estabelecer regras para a geoengenharia mundial... a partir do reconhecimento que qualquer mudança no clima afeta todos os paises... não tem apenas um efeito local.

We consider that there is a need for international regulation to ensure that any geoengineering research and deployment activities are pursued responsibly, in particular for those technologies that have trans-boundary implications. We therefore welcome the Committee’s recommendations for more international collaboration and co-ordination towards developing robust international instruments and regulatory frameworks to cover such diverse, complex and potentially ‘planetchanging’ technologies. However, the current low level of understanding of the risks and impacts of geoengineering options and the present early development stage of technologies,

means that it would be difficult at the present time to formulate effective or appropriate regulatory regimes for geoengineering research and deployment to cover all possibilities that might receive serious attention. Any future regulatory framework would also need to include flexibility to take account of new findings and developments as they arise.

The Royal Society has launched a Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI) in partnership with the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) and the U.S. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to explore regulatory issues pertaining to SRM techniques. We welcome this initiative which will help us develop a formal position and future strategy.

There are also a number of other activities currently underway which will be important contributions to this process, and which the Government is supporting. The IPCC’s next Assessment Report will address geoengineering and will provide further information on the science and environmental consequences of both Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM) techniques. The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has recently completed, with partners, a Public Dialogue Exercise to inform how future geoengineering research is directed,

conducted, shaped and communicated. Finally, the UK is also actively engaged, through Defra, BIS and RCUK, with the London Convention/London Protocol (LC/LP), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in considering an

appropriate regulatory regime for ocean fertilization as a potential geoengineering technique, with initial focus on an approval process for relevant research in international waters.

o documento na íntegra pode ser obido aqui:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228586/7936.pdf

ou aqui: Government Response to the House of Commons

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