Geoengineering: Infrastructures for a Global Climate?

Summary

As climate change accelerates and climate-related hazards intensify, attention is increasingly turning to the possibilities of technical fixes to tackle the growing scale of disruptions. Potential projects for carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere and ones aimed at reflecting sunlight away from the Earth, a matter of solar radiation management, are being investigated. Insofar as these techniques are deployed in the near future, they will effectively become the infrastructure for climate management. But given the lack of governance arrangements, and the potential for disputes caused by their implementation, it is an open question whether these programs could coalesce into a global system or instead add to international disputes over who should attempt to govern climate and by what means.