- Title
- Does the 'no-harm' rule have a role in preventing transboundary harm and harm to the global atmospheric commons from geoengineering?
- Creator
- Brent, Kerryn; McGee, Jeffrey; Maguire, Amy
- Relation
- Climate Law Vol. 5, Issue 1, p. 35-63
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18786561-00501007
- Publisher
- Brill
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Solar Radiation Management (SRM) geoengineering poses a significant risk of transboundary and global atmospheric harm. How might international law regulate the future use of SRM? We explore how the 'no-harm rule' from customary international law might contribute to the international governance of future attempts at SRM. The no-harm rule imposes a legal duty on states to prevent significant damage across borders and in the global commons. Existing geoengineering literature assumes that, as the international law system lacks a mandatory enforcement mechanism, the no-harm rule will play little or no role in the governance of SRM. We challenge this assumption by focusing on the possibilities of compliance with the no-harm rule through bolstering its legitimacy and sense of legal obligation. We explain how Brunnée and Toope's theory of 'interactional international law' might provide a useful lens for developing the no-harm rule in this way to independently respond to the risks posed by SRM.
- Subject
- geoengineering; transboundary harm; no-harm rule; compliance; legitimacy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1330612
- Identifier
- uon:26429
- Identifier
- ISSN:1878-6553
- Language
- eng
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