Alemanno & Sugiyama (2025): Climate Intervention Governance: Risk, Regulation, and Legitimacy
Alberto Alemanno, Masahiro Sugiyama, IN: SSRN Working Paper, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5923846
As the risk of climate overshoot grows, attention increasingly turns to climate interventions, such as Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), that is, technologies designed to actively alter the climate system beyond conventional mitigation and adaptation. The article addresses questions of institutional legitimacy and recognition justice, the implications of international legal fragmentation, competing approaches to risk analysis, the application of precautionary and prevention principles, market governance of CDR, the role of intellectual property regimes, and regional perspectives.