Climate Geoengineering Governance

该项目的工作围绕三个主题进行分组-三套理解，这是指导地球工程治理决策所必需的。每个主题下的一套工作包都得到一组共同讲习班的支持，这将有助于整合工作包内容中的见解，并随着项目的推进，促进决策者、从业人员和民间社会代表的更多参与。1.地球工程框架。地球工程目前是如何在社会技术和法律的条款框架？我们可以从它与近年来出现的其他复杂技术的多层次治理挑战的相似性和差异性，或者从最近危机中管理金融体系复杂性的尝试中了解到什么？什么是正义和公平的概念，可以用来框架我们的方法，其监管？目前有哪些条约和法律与此有关？除了减缓气候变化本身，地球工程治理还可能试图实现哪些广泛的目标？这些问题将在项目的第1-6个月的第1-3个工作包中处理。地球工程技术控制的困境。地球工程在评估利益和风险、公众可接受性、锁定和路径依赖风险、在评估经济案例时避免“评估乐观主义”、在面对不确定性时适当使用预防措施以及在国际关系中提出了哪些具体的治理挑战和机遇，我们可以如何尝试应对这些挑战和机遇？我们如何看待地球工程作为一个创新系统的作用-谁将在哪里进行试验或实施，以及可能涉及哪些能力建设和技术转让？关于这些问题的工作包括第4-7工作包，涵盖7- 18个月。选择治理和监管要求。治理和监管安排在法域内部和法域之间如何实际运作？它们是否足够敏感和适应，能够对影响或标准的变化作出反应？需要哪些新的规则制定和程序协调，能否确保各利益攸关方的支持？在各主要管辖区，是否有国内管制措施来满足这些要求？最后，我们可以从地球工程案例中学到哪些更广泛的经验教训，用于评估、监管和治理新兴技术？涵盖这些问题的第8套工作将从第19个月至第24个月进行。它包括与利益攸关方举行的情景研讨会，以帮助确定可能的情况，在这种情况下，不同的地球工程方法可能是实验或部署的主题，以及所需的治理方法。

The work in this project is grouped around three themes - three sets of understandings which are required to inform decisions on the governance of geoengineering. The set of work packages under each theme is supported by a common set of workshops that will help to integrate the insights from the work package elements, and generate increased engagement with policymakers, practitioners and representatives of civil society as the project proceeds. 1. Framings of Geoengineering. How is geoengineering currently framed in sociotechnical and legal terms? What can we learn about its similarities and differences in relation to the multilevel governance challenges of other complex technologies to emerge in recent times, or from attempts to manage complexity in the financial system in the light of the recent crisis? What are the conceptions of justice and fairness that might be used to frame our approach to its regulation? What current treaties and laws bear upon it? What other broad purposes, other than the mitigation of climate change itself, might geoengineering governance be trying to achieve? These issues are pursued in work packages 1-3 in months 1-6 of the project.2. Dilemmas of Control of Geoengineering Technologies. What particular governance challenges and opportunities does geoengineering present - in assessing benefits and risks, in terms of public acceptability, in the risks of lock-in and path dependency, in avoiding "appraisal optimism" in assessing the economic case, in appropriate use of precaution in the face of uncertainty, and in international relations - and how might we try to deal with these? How do we see geoengineering working as a system of innovation - who would experiment or implement where, and what capacity building and technology transfer might be involved? Work on these issues comprises work packages 4-7 covering months 7-18.3. Choosing Governance and Regulatory Requirements. How would governance and regulatory arrangements work in practice both within and between jurisdictions? Can they be sensitive and adaptive enough to respond to changes in impacts or criteria? What new rulemaking and procedural harmonisation would be required, and could the buy-in of various stakeholders be secured? Are the domestic controls in place to address these requirements in a variety of key jurisdictions? Finally, what wider lessons for the assessment, regulation and governance of emerging technologies can we learn from the geoengineering case? Work package 8, covering these issues, would run from months 19-24. It includes scenario workshops with stakeholders in helping to define possible circumstances in which different approaches to geoengineering might be the subject of experiment or deployment, and the governance approaches required.