Hi All
If something turned out to be a great way to extend bio-diversity,
increase food supplies and save lives should we sue people for not doing it?
Stephen
Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design School of Engineering
University of Edinburgh Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JL Scotland
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On 06/12/2013 02:09, Mike MacCracken wrote:
Re: [geo] Implications of Current Developments in International
Liability for the Practice of Marine Geo-engineering Activities
Interesting how seemingly confident the author is of potentially
adverse impacts of iron fertilization. How would the harm be
identified and proven? There are ways to work at determining if
fertilization would work, but how would the damage done be figured out
in a convincing way? Lots could be asserted, but what could be proven?
Sure there are differences, but does that make it harmful?
Mike
On 12/5/13 7:50 PM, "Andrew Lockley" <andrew.lock...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9083401
Implications of Current Developments in International Liability
for the Practice of Marine Geo-engineering Activities
Jung-Eun KIM *
Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
ocean...@kiost.ac
Abstract
Ocean fertilization was first introduced as a carbon dioxide
mitigation technique in the 1980s. However, its effectiveness to
slow down climate change is uncertain and it is expected to damage
the marine environment. Consequently, international law, including
the London Convention/Protocol and the Convention on Biological
Diversity, limits this activity to scientific research purposes.
The applicability and scope of existing treaties for regulating
this activity have been reviewed within international legal
systems, in particular within the London Protocol. The
establishment of a liability regime with respect to these
activities has also been raised during a discussion on regulation
of ocean fertilization under the London Protocol. One of the key
purposes of the liability regime could be to make ocean users more
cautious when exploring and exploiting the oceans through charging
cleaning costs or imposing compensation for damage. This paper
aims to identify such a preventative effect of the international
liability regime, in particular, state liability.
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