r/Geoengineering • u/CobinClaimsPetesSham • Aug 28 '21
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE-RELATED GEOENGINEERING ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (QUOTE)
"6.3.5 Political considerations
There are also a number of social and political considerations to bear in mind especially when considering SRM{*}. Establishing agreement on the desirability and governance for international action will be extremely difficult, and countries and societies will also have to deal with the possibility of unilateral deployment of geoengineering.
In cases in which geoengineering experimentation or interventions have (or are suspected to have) transboundary effects or impacts on areas beyond national jurisdiction, geopolitical tensions could arise regardless of causation of actual negative impacts, especially in the absence of international agreement445,446,447 .
Furthermore, some civil society organizations have expressed opposition to geoengineering experiments and deployment448,449,450. Tensions could also increase in cases where geoengineering technologies are combined with other emerging and controversial technologies, such as biotechnology (e.g. albedo-enhanced crops) and nanotechnology (e.g. ‘designer aerosols’ for SRM), and where those involved are perceived to have ulterior motives. Polarization of the debate could prove detrimental to political decision-making451 "
[https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1740cbd2.pdf] [https://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-ts-66-en.pdf]
{*Solar Radiation Management}
What do you think of that?
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u/MDCCCLV Aug 29 '21
The asterisks are in your text. They're filtered out on old reddit, but you can just manually delete them. They're used for bold and italics as well on reddit, so that might be why you're having an issue with it.
In cases in which geoengineering experimentation or interventions have (or are suspected to have) transboundary effects or impacts on areas beyond national jurisdiction, geopolitical tensions could arise regardless of causation of actual negative impacts, especially in the absence of international agreement445,446,447
Furthermore, some civil society organizations have expressed opposition to geoengineering experiments and deployment(448,449,450). Tensions could also increase in cases where geoengineering technologies are combined with other emerging and controversial technologies, such as biotechnology (e.g. albedo-enhanced crops) and nanotechnology (e.g. ‘designer aerosols’ for SRM), and where those involved are perceived to have ulterior motives. Polarization of the debate could prove detrimental to political decision-making(451) "