What role for the precautionary principle in climate engineering?

0561597 - ÚSP 2023 eng A - Abstract
Müllerová, Hana
What role for the precautionary principle in climate engineering?
[9th EELF Annual Conference Rethinking environmental law: connectivity, intersections, and conflicts in the global environmental crisis. Tarragona, 21.09.2022-23.09.2022]
Method of presentation: Přednáška
Event organizer: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
URL events: https://wwwa.fundacio.urv.cat/congressos/9eelf/programme 
Institutional support: RVO:68378122
Keywords : climate engineering * solar engineering * precautionary principle * climate change
OECD category: Law

Application of the precautionary principle in assessing climate engineering methods poses a special challenge for law. There are two opposing approaches to understanding the principle in relation to climate engineering present within the scholarship, one concluding in favour and the other against legal support to these technologies. The paper presented both approaches and summarized their main legal arguments, finally defending the approach calling for the more cautious approach, leading to permitting only such methods that pose no significant risk to the environment and human society.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0334176