The English (and Americans) are great ambassadors for pro-geoengineering few years.
The recipe is simple: after raising sauce, they are ready to legislate and enrichment on the establishment of Plan B, all seasoned with double talk (or how regulate the use possible technologies that are, in fact, already widely used.)
Today the soup (article below) is served by "the largest international technology monitoring service from Network World Scientific Services Embassies of France" : -newsletters electroniques.com , service ADIT (which officially "to help anticipate changes to better prepare
...") In fact, this newsletter has just aim to give a green light to the normalization implicit and generalization of geoengineering, but only for those who cares to look at the show ...
BE United Kingdom 105 - 14/09/2010
Environment
Geo-engineering: a regulatory framework s proves indispensable
http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/64451.htm
The term geo-engineering (GeoEngineering) denotes the set of techniques specifically designed to change the climate on a global scale in order to counter climate change resulting from human activities. The United Kingdom, which is committed to drastically reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 to try to curb global warming, consider geoengineering as a "Plan B" intended to supplement the ongoing programs (development of wind energy, energy distribution networks intelligent, ...) where the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases is not enough to stem the higher temperatures. That is why the Science and Techology Select Committee (Parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology) with members of the House of Commons issued a report last March from joint work with its U.S. counterpart, U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee (Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives of the United States) on the issue of regulation and control of geo-engineering.
techniques of manipulating the climate are numerous and varied (see Science & Technology in the United Kingdom from November to December 2009, p18). These are commonly grouped into two broad categories according to whether they intended to remove carbon dioxide from the air to mitigate the greenhouse effect (CDR Carbon Dioxide Removal ) or they manipulate light radiation from Sun to increase the amount of energy reflected by the Earth and its atmosphere and thus lower the temperature (SRM Solar Radiation Management ). As a prelude to its study, the committee has not found it unnecessary to dwell on the exact definition that was appropriate to give the term geo-engineering and the area it covers. For example, insisting the global dimension of climate changes induced by the geo-technical engineering, members exclude its cloud seeding (already used in many countries, particularly heavily in China). Indeed, it does not give rise to changes in climate as a space and a limited period.
Most of the work of British and American parliamentary committees involved in thinking about regulation which will guide the geo-engineering from the research stage to a possible deployment. Members based without the need for delay such legislation on three main reasons:
- techniques for geo-engineering potential to give a country the ability to unilaterally change the climate;
- tests are already underway on certain techniques of geo- engineering;
- investing in research now, and within a clear regulatory framework is essential to the geo-engineering a credible alternative if the need arose.
Once installed the need for regulation, the committee sought to determine the criteria on which it could build. Indeed, the variety of techniques as part of geo-engineering (but especially the diversity of their consequences), it seems neither appropriate nor possible to formulate a single set of rules that would apply to all. Accordingly, the committee proposes to classify them according to various factors listed below in order to assess the nature of controls appropriate to each:
- the effects that different techniques may be beyond the borders of the country that implements ;
- the dispersal of potentially hazardous elements in the environment;
- the direct consequences ecosystems.
Thus, members of the House of Commons argue that regulation and supervision of graduate research and development in geo-engineering are essential. From there, it remains part of the problem would be best suited to implement and enforce these regulations, and the basic principles they used to guarantee. Given the transnational nature of the potential negative effects of geoengineering regulations that seek to ban, it is clear that they are intended to be defined at a level International. If members recall the United Nations Organization as responsible, ultimately, this control, they also emphasize the important role that national governments, and that of the United Kingdom in particular, have to play in bringing the issue geo-engineering agenda of international discussions and initiate the regulatory process. As for the basic principles of future international instruments, the Committee expresses in five points:
- geo-engineering and research and development partners must be framed in the public interest (but not ban private investment, quite the contrary);
- the participation of public bodies, whether national or international in decision making related to the geo-engineering is necessary;
- research in this area and its results should be fully rendered to facilitate public understanding of the risks of geo-engineering and be able to reassure the people;
- the potential impact of geo-engineering projects should be evaluated by independent working groups of those who produce research and which are organized at the appropriate level (regional, national or international) depending on the extent hazards caused;
- Deployment of devices using techniques of geo-engineering should not be done before the establishment of a robust governance on the subject and binding rules. The report of
Science and Technology Select Committee sets the scene in which the work must register control to be performed at the Government of the United Kingdom and internationally to prevent uncontrolled development and dangerous geo-engineering. But it also reflects an innovation in diplomacy: working together with a committee of the same type United States. This cooperation took place outside of predefined protocols (which currently exist for joint work between members of the House of Commons , House of Commons, and others of the National Assembly for Wales, National Assembly for Wales), and without the two parliamentary committees do not sit together. It relied on information sharing during frequent contacts between elected officials on both sides of the Atlantic. After this experience, the Committee on Science and Technology concludes that the global nature of the challenges in science and technology renew calls for such collaborations with other governments. He even suggests that, where appropriate, a committee member partner attend as observers the sessions of the Select Committee via a video link for example.
Geo-engineering is a subject on which the British government, if it follows the recommendations of the Science and Technology Select Committee the previous Parliament, should be addressed in the near future. It seems appropriate that this group of MPs urged his government to act now, before having to cope with irreversible changes in climate.
techniques of manipulating the climate are numerous and varied (see Science & Technology in the United Kingdom from November to December 2009, p18). These are commonly grouped into two broad categories according to whether they intended to remove carbon dioxide from the air to mitigate the greenhouse effect (CDR Carbon Dioxide Removal ) or they manipulate light radiation from Sun to increase the amount of energy reflected by the Earth and its atmosphere and thus lower the temperature (SRM Solar Radiation Management ). As a prelude to its study, the committee has not found it unnecessary to dwell on the exact definition that was appropriate to give the term geo-engineering and the area it covers. For example, insisting the global dimension of climate changes induced by the geo-technical engineering, members exclude its cloud seeding (already used in many countries, particularly heavily in China). Indeed, it does not give rise to changes in climate as a space and a limited period.
Most of the work of British and American parliamentary committees involved in thinking about regulation which will guide the geo-engineering from the research stage to a possible deployment. Members based without the need for delay such legislation on three main reasons:
- techniques for geo-engineering potential to give a country the ability to unilaterally change the climate;
- tests are already underway on certain techniques of geo- engineering;
- investing in research now, and within a clear regulatory framework is essential to the geo-engineering a credible alternative if the need arose.
Once installed the need for regulation, the committee sought to determine the criteria on which it could build. Indeed, the variety of techniques as part of geo-engineering (but especially the diversity of their consequences), it seems neither appropriate nor possible to formulate a single set of rules that would apply to all. Accordingly, the committee proposes to classify them according to various factors listed below in order to assess the nature of controls appropriate to each:
- the effects that different techniques may be beyond the borders of the country that implements ;
- the dispersal of potentially hazardous elements in the environment;
- the direct consequences ecosystems.
Thus, members of the House of Commons argue that regulation and supervision of graduate research and development in geo-engineering are essential. From there, it remains part of the problem would be best suited to implement and enforce these regulations, and the basic principles they used to guarantee. Given the transnational nature of the potential negative effects of geoengineering regulations that seek to ban, it is clear that they are intended to be defined at a level International. If members recall the United Nations Organization as responsible, ultimately, this control, they also emphasize the important role that national governments, and that of the United Kingdom in particular, have to play in bringing the issue geo-engineering agenda of international discussions and initiate the regulatory process. As for the basic principles of future international instruments, the Committee expresses in five points:
- geo-engineering and research and development partners must be framed in the public interest (but not ban private investment, quite the contrary);
- the participation of public bodies, whether national or international in decision making related to the geo-engineering is necessary;
- research in this area and its results should be fully rendered to facilitate public understanding of the risks of geo-engineering and be able to reassure the people;
- the potential impact of geo-engineering projects should be evaluated by independent working groups of those who produce research and which are organized at the appropriate level (regional, national or international) depending on the extent hazards caused;
- Deployment of devices using techniques of geo-engineering should not be done before the establishment of a robust governance on the subject and binding rules. The report of
Science and Technology Select Committee sets the scene in which the work must register control to be performed at the Government of the United Kingdom and internationally to prevent uncontrolled development and dangerous geo-engineering. But it also reflects an innovation in diplomacy: working together with a committee of the same type United States. This cooperation took place outside of predefined protocols (which currently exist for joint work between members of the House of Commons , House of Commons, and others of the National Assembly for Wales, National Assembly for Wales), and without the two parliamentary committees do not sit together. It relied on information sharing during frequent contacts between elected officials on both sides of the Atlantic. After this experience, the Committee on Science and Technology concludes that the global nature of the challenges in science and technology renew calls for such collaborations with other governments. He even suggests that, where appropriate, a committee member partner attend as observers the sessions of the Select Committee via a video link for example.
Geo-engineering is a subject on which the British government, if it follows the recommendations of the Science and Technology Select Committee the previous Parliament, should be addressed in the near future. It seems appropriate that this group of MPs urged his government to act now, before having to cope with irreversible changes in climate.
Source:
- House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, 5th Report of the parliamentary session 2009-2010, 18 / 03/2010 - http://redirectix.bulletins-electroniques.com/XrQfk
- Newsletter, 21/01/2010, Geo-engineering: Science, Governance and uncertainty - http://www.bulletinselectroniques.com / actualites/61972.htm
- Newsletter, 21/01/2010, Geo-engineering: Science, Governance and uncertainty - http://www.bulletinselectroniques.com / actualites/61972.htm
Editor:
Joel Constant
Origin: BE UK number 105 (09/14/2010) - The Embassy of France in the United Kingdom / ADIT - http: / / www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/64451.htm
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