• DOI:10.1007/BF00142579
• Corpus ID: 156701681

May we engineer the climate?

@article{Bodansky1996MayWE,
  title={May we engineer the climate?},
  author={Daniel Bodansky},
  journal={Climatic Change},
  year={1996},
  volume={33},
  pages={309-321}
}

• D. Bodansky
• Published 1 July 1996
• Environmental Science
• Climatic Change

Not only is the science of climate engineering uncertain; the legal issues are also highly uncertain. Although existing international law does not specifically limit the freedom of states to undertake climate engineering, the international community would likely demand a say should climate engineering move from the realm of speculation to concrete proposals. The experience of other environmental regimes, however, suggests that developing an international decision-making mechanism would be difficult, and that the international community might opt for a simple prohibition on climate engineering on grounds of ‘precaution’.