Not only is the science of climate engineering uncertain; the legal issues are also highly uncertain. Although existing international law does not specifically limit the freedom of states to undertake climate engineering, the international community would likely demand a say should climate engineering move from the realm of speculation to concrete proposals. The experience of other environmental regimes, however, suggests that developing an international decision-making mechanism would be difficult, and that the international community might opt for a simple prohibition on climate engineering on grounds of 'precaution'.
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Bodansky, D. (1996). May we engineer the climate? Climatic Change. Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142579
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