EU report cites ethical, legal, and governance issues of geoengineering
June 30, 2023 | ZeroGeoengineering.com | Geoengineering field “research” may be indistinguishable from deployment, although this fact is not mentioned in the June 2023 EU report, JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL.
The paper acknowledges that geoengineering “technologies introduce new risks to people and ecosystems, while they could also increase power imbalances between nations, spark conflicts and raises a myriad of ethical, legal, governance and political issues…the EU will support international efforts to assess comprehensively the risks and uncertainties of climate interventions, including solar radiation modification and promote discussions on a potential international framework for its governance, including research related aspects.”
Harmful effects of toxic agents contained in geoengineering aerosols such as SO2 have been positively established in scientific and medical literature. Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) and aluminum oxide (alumina) have negative health and environmental impacts, as also cited in Mexico’s ban on solar geoengineering.
Therefore, the appropriate policy regarding the intentional release of hazardous emissions via stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and other methods of geoengineering is prohibition.
JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL
Link to Full Document: JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL
To learn more about advocating for laws to prohibit weather modification, solar geoengineering, and other atmospheric/environmental hazards email: contact@americans4acleanatmosphere.com or director@zerogeoengineering.com.
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