Comprehensive climate justice: The Guidelines recognize that geoengineering affects not only those currently living on Earth, but also future generations. Some methods, such as stratospheric aerosols, do not eliminate the risks posed by warming, but rather pass them on to future generations, and if geoengineering is stopped, they will not be able to produce sudden and dramatic warming. There is a possibility of facing Others may cause regional differences in either benefits or warming, shifting the results to different populations.
Special attention should be paid to those who have historically been on the wrong side of environmental issues in the past. And we also need to consider the harm to nature.
Inclusive public participation: Research should not be approached simply as a scientific process. Instead, affected communities must be included in the process and informed consent must be obtained from them. Continued public engagement with these communities is required and we need to adapt to their cultural values.
Transparency: The public needs to be aware of who is funding geoengineering research and ensure that who is funding does not influence decisions about research design. Those decisions and the considerations behind them should also be made clear to the public.
Informed governance: Any experiment must comply with a variety of laws, both domestic and international. Research programs must be approved by an independent body before work begins. All parties involved (which may also include funders, institutions and external contractors) need to be accountable to governments, public authorities and those potentially affected by the work. there is.
If you think this would complicate the pursuit of this research considerably, you are absolutely right. But again, even testing these approaches can have serious environmental impacts. And many of these represent best practices in any research that has the potential to impact society. The fact that they are not always pursued is no excuse to continue avoiding doing them.
