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Geoengineering: Ethical Considerations and Global Governance

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  • Ying CHEN

    (Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Room 810, Zhongye Building, 28 Shuguangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, China)

  • Zhe LIU

    (Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Room 810, Zhongye Building, 28 Shuguangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, China)

Abstract

Human society is facing great challenges to address global climate change. How to move the international climate process forward is still a serious problem for politicians. Geoengineering's, so called Plan B to cope with climate change has attracted attentions of the international community with a lot of debate on its impact, risks from an ethical view as well as global governance at the level. In this paper, we focus on some important issues of geoengineering including the definition, characteristics, ethics and global governance, etc. and then put forward some suggestions for China's considerations.

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  • Ying CHEN & Zhe LIU, 2013. "Geoengineering: Ethical Considerations and Global Governance," Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 1(01), pages 1-10.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:cjuesx:v:01:y:2013:i:01:n:s2345748113500061
    DOI: 10.1142/S2345748113500061
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