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GENeva Environment Dialogues | International Governance Issues on Climate Engineering 18 JUIN 2020 09:00–10:00 Lieu: Live | Webex Event & Facebook Organisation: Geneva Environment Network Climat ODD9 ODD13 The world is struggling in limiting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are causing global climate change. This has brought increased attention to climate engineering technologies, which could counteract some disruptions and heating caused by elevated greenhouse gases. However, climate engineering technologies could also cause unintended adverse impacts and consequences on the environment and sustainable development, generate controversy and pose governance challenges. About the GENeva Environment Dialogues The aim of the GENeva Environment Dialogues is to discuss current and pressing topics on the global environmental agenda. At this session a new report analyzing international governance issues on climate engineering will be released. About Climate Engineering Climate engineering refers to a broad set of methods and technologies that aim to deliberately alter the climate system in order to alleviate the impacts of climate change. Most, but not all, methods seek to either increase net carbon sinks from the atmosphere at a scale sufficiently large to alter the climate, or reduce the amount of absorbed solar energy in the climate system. Climate engineering raises scientific and technical questions as well as many ethical, legal, and equity issues. New research study A new research study “International Governance Issues on Climate Engineering” prepared by a group of scientists is being released in June 2020. The report is edited by the International Risk Governance Center (IRGC), at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). Some climate engineering technologies are being developed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide removal, CDR), which is expected to contribute to reducing and preventing climate change. Some other technologies (solar radiation modification, SRM) would artificially cool the planet and could reduce some symptoms and risks of climate change. Meaningful steps may need to be taken soon to lay a foundation for a decision process regarding research, policy, regulation and possible use. Driven by questions and needs from the international policymaking community to better understand the potential benefits as well as opportunities, risks, uncertainties and other challenges of CDR and SRM, at both technical and governance levels, this new report reviews and compares technologies and their potential contributions, costs, risks, uncertainties, before surveying the current legal and institutional landscape of governance regarding climate engineering. It then addresses trade-offs between risks and discusses possible options for international governance, including criteria for evaluating options. The need for more inclusive approaches and the pros- and cons of institutional fragmentation are emphasized. Options for sites of international governance are discussed, for various technologies, as well as general principles and specific recommendations to: distinguish between CDR and SRM in their additional dedicated governance, accelerate authoritative international scientific assessment, encourage the research, development and responsible use of CDR technologies, explore potential governance of SRM while remaining agnostic about its use, and to consider also mechanisms of non-state governance. Speakers Facilitators: GEN Team Bruno POZZI Director for Europe, UNEP H.E. Franz PERREZ Ambassador for the Environment, Switzerland Marie-Valentine FLORIN Coordinator of the Study, Executive director, International Risk Governance Center, EPFL Paul ROUSE Author of the Study, Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G) Jesse REYNOLDS Author of the Study, University of California (UCLA) Oliver GEDEN Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Lead Author IPCC 6th Assessment Report -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-04hDULDTRP4oQfSNeswBXibykFdwzKd%3DO3KjjxcPEO5yw%40mail.gmail.com.
