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Burns, William C. G.; Nicholson, Simon (2015): Introduction to the Special Issue: Climate Engineering Law

Burns, William C. G.; Nicholson, Simon (2015): Introduction to the Special Issue: Climate Engineering Law. In Climate Law 5 (2-4), pp.[nbsp]105–110. DOI: 10.1163/18786561-00504001[nbsp]

„Largely out of desparation and despair, climate engineering has moved from the realm of taboo to one more policy prescription. Yet, as all of the articles in this issue emphasize, it is a policy prescription not to be embraced lightly given the profound implications that it could pose for human institutions and natural ecosystems.“

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Lin, Jolene (2015): Geoengineering: An ASEAN Position

Lin, Jolene (2015): Geoengineering:[nbsp]An ASEAN Position. In Kheng Lian Koh, Ilan Kelman, Robert Kibugi, Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio (Eds.): Adaptation to climate change. ASEAN and comparative experiences. New Jersey: World Scientific, pp.[nbsp]191–212.

„This chapter focuses primarily on geoengineering research rather than deployment because the technical and policy debate about geoengineering is currently at the early stage at which the broad questions are whether research into geoengineering ought to be encouraged and how such research should be regulated.“

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Anshelm, Jonas; Hansson, Anders (2015): Has the grand idea of geoengineering as Plan B run out of steam?

Anshelm, Jonas; Hansson, Anders (2015): Has the grand idea of geoengineering as Plan B run out of steam? In The Anthropocene Review. DOI: 10.1177/2053019615614592[nbsp]

„However, based on a reading of 700 articles published worldwide in 2014 and 2015, we demonstrate a gradual shift in the coverage, and the daily press now primarily reports critical views of geoengineering technologies. The patterns outlined here point in the same direction: It seems as though the grand idea of geoengineering as Plan B is fading.“

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The Stanley Foundation; Perspectives (2015): Assessing Global Climte Engineering Governance. Policy dialogue brief

The Stanley Foundation; Perspectives (2015): Assessing Global Climte Engineering Governance. Policy dialogue brief. Zurich.

„This policy dialogue brief looks at five elements for enhancing global climate engineering governance: the development of knowledge, assessing technology options and deployment pathways, building institutional capacity, decisions and regulations on deployment, and a technology investment mechanism.“

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Health Aim: Global Warming Solution – Hacking Nature

„Let’s take a closer look on how the concept of hacking nature will be done. Geoengineering was thought to give solution. An endangering 2-degree-celsius rise is said to possibly happen in the next decades to come. This will be devastating to nature and life. A rapid increase of carbon dioxide on air is making this happen little by little.“

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Getty Science: Technological Fix Could We Stop Climate Change Using Science?

„One of the most interesting cases of a theoretical technological solution to a problem facing humanity is geoengineering. The idea behind it is that because we can’t stop the global warming using soft methods such as CO2 emission reduction, we should engineer the earth’s climate so that it cools down. Although most of the geoengineering ideas are at the outskirts of scientific research for now, there is a very interesting debate of whether they would be feasible or more importantly if their use would be ethical.“

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