SGG: Geoengineering, crisis in international order, and comparative global governance regimes: roadmaps or dead ends?

SGG：地球工程、国际秩序危机以及全球治理制度比较：路线图还是死胡同？

基本信息

批准号：
EP/X023699/1
负责人：
Olaf Corry
金额：
$ 24.26万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX023699%2F1
关键词：
SGG Geoengineering crisis international order

项目摘要

The aim of this project is to provide a theoretically and historically grounded, policy-relevant analysis to inform solar geoengineering governance initiatives. It will investigate whether the frequent comparison to the governance of nuclear weapons provides an effective roadmap for solar geoengineering governance and use its analysis of the nuclear analogy to advance academic and policy debates on the potential for feasible, effective, and equitable solar geoengineering governance. The increasingly visible consequences of climate change are leading scientists and policymakers to consider the extreme measure of trying to cool global temperatures by reducing incoming solar radiation, a process called solar geoengineering. The most prominent solar geoengineering strategy being considered is Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), which involves spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere. If the technology is to be safely developed and used it will require extensive international cooperation to govern and changing international political conditions could make it more difficult to control. Nuclear weapons governance is frequently identified as a useful comparison for SAI and references to nuclear governance in solar geoengineering literature currently serve to provide political reassurance that it will be possible to design effective global governance. However, the relevance of nuclear weapons governance for SAI is underexamined and comparisons between the two technologies minimise or ignore persistent challenges in nuclear governance. These challenges in nuclear governance may suggest lessons for developing solar geoengineering governance. This is an interdisciplinary project combining archival research, participant observation and key stakeholder interviews to examine historical and current linkages between these two potentially planet-altering technologies to provide more informed analysis for emerging solar geoengineering governance initiatives.

该项目的目的是提供具有理论和历史基础的、与政策相关的分析，为太阳能地球工程治理举措提供信息。它将调查与核武器治理的频繁比较是否为太阳地球工程治理提供了有效的路线图，并利用其对核类比的分析来推进关于可行、有效和公平的太阳地球工程治理潜力的学术和政策辩论。气候变化日益明显的后果促使科学家和政策制定者考虑采取极端措施，通过减少传入的太阳辐射来降低全球气温，这一过程称为太阳能地球工程。正在考虑的最突出的太阳能地球工程策略是平流层气溶胶注入（SAI），其中涉及将反射粒子喷射到平流层中。如果要安全地开发和使用该技术，就需要广泛的国际合作来治理，而不断变化的国际政治条件可能会使其更难以控制。核武器治理经常被认为是对 SAI 的有用比较，而太阳能地球工程文献中对核治理的引用目前可以为设计有效的全球治理提供政治保证。然而，核武器治理与 SAI 的相关性尚未得到充分检验，两种技术之间的比较最大限度地减少或忽视了核治理中持续存在的挑战。核治理中的这些挑战可能为发展太阳能地球工程治理提供经验教训。这是一个跨学科项目，结合了档案研究、参与者观察和主要利益相关者访谈，以研究这两种可能改变地球的技术之间的历史和当前联系，为新兴的太阳能地球工程治理举措提供更明智的分析。