Outputs from the St Anne‘s Workshop, 18-19 March 2013
Tensions in framings of geoengineering: Constitutive diversity and ambivalence
Nils Markusson
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), University of Oxford
Examining framings of geoengineering using Q methodology
Rose Cairns
Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex
Reimagining the Role of the Public in Geoengineering Governance through Confucianism
Pak-Hang Wong
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) and Institute for Science & Ethics, University of Oxford
Unforeseeable Harms of Intentional Climate Change
Clare Heyward
Institute of Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), and Institute for Science & Ethics, University of Oxford
Issues of Law and Regulation in Geoengineering
Chiara Armeni
Centre for Law and the Environment, University College London (UCL)
Presentations from the Workshop on Lock-in and Path Dependence and Geoengineering
Rose Cairns’ Background Briefing Paper for the workshop can be found here.
Presentations
Session 1 – Disciplinary Perspectives on Lock-in
Entrenchment, adaptation and disentanglement – William Walker (St Andrews) – no slide presentation
Technological Flexibility and Democracy – Mike Thompson (IIASA) – no slide presentation
Lock-in from the perspective of Innovation Theory/Transitions – Tim Foxon (Leeds)
Session 2 – Geoengineering and Lock-in
Brief Introduction to Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) and Lock-in Associated with the ‘Termination Effect’– Matt Watson (Bristol)
The Slippery Slope in Climate Engineering– Stefan Shaefer (IASS-Potsdam)
Cognitive/Epistemic Lock-in and Geoengineering – Rob Bellamy (InSIS, Oxford)
Technical Thresholds and Societal Concerns: Competing Framings and their Implications for Governance – Sean Low (IASS-Potsdam)
Session 3 – Geoengineering and Lock-in continued
Intellectual Property and Geoengineering Lock-in – Jack Stilgoe (UCL)
Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too? – Anna Maria Hubert (IASS- Potsdam) – no slide presentation
Session 4 – Assessment Approaches
Open-ended Road-mapping: a Constructive Approach to Geoengineering Options Assessment – Douglas K. R. Robinson (Université de Paris-Est)
Learning from Partial Historical Analogues– Florian Kern (SPRU)
Vision Assessment : the Interactive Action and Learning Approach– Lise Bitsch (VU Amsterdam)
CGG Working Papers
CGG Working Papers
The Climate Geoengineering Governance Working Paper series is designed to give a first public airing to a wide range of papers broadly related to the project’s themes. Papers published in this series may be, but are not necessarily, early outputs from the project team; equally they may be from other authors, and reflect different perspectives and different issues from those directly pursued by the project itself. The aim is to promote vigorous and informed debate, in a spirit of pluralism.
What the working papers have in common is that they will all be at an early stage of development, prior to full publication. Comment and response, at any level of detail, is therefore doubly welcome. Please send all responses in the first instance to the authors themselves – each paper contains a correspondence address. We will be looking for opportunities to use the website or other project activities to give a wider airing to any dialogues and debates that develop around a paper or issue.
This paper appears, with slight changes, in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17 (3). The final publication is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne201421110
CGG Working Paper no 6. July 2013. C.Heyward & Steve Rayner. Apocalypse Nicked!
CGG Working Paper no. 13. July 2014. Gordon MacKerron. Costs and economics of geoengineering.
CGG Briefing Notes
These Briefing Notes summarise some of the key findings and recommendations of the Climate Geoengineering Governance project. They are intended to be an introduction to the full range of project results available elsewhere on this website. They are also available in hard copy sets within a folder – please email stacey.richardson@insis.ox.ac.uk if you would like one or more of these.
CGG Briefing Note 1- What is geoengineering?
CGG Briefing Note 2 – Are the economics of geoengineering really incredible?
CGG Briefing Note 3 – The security implications of solar geoengineering
CGG Briefing Note 4 – How might geoengineering be regulated?
CGG Briefing Note 5 – Engaging the public with geoengineering
CGG Briefing Note 6 – What should we expect from geoengineering research?
CGG Briefing Note 7 – Is there a place for geoengineering in addressing climate change?
Other reports and publications
Rose Cairns (2013) Geoengineering: Issues of Path-Dependence and Socio-Technical Lock-in, originally prepared as a background briefing paper for the CGG Workshop on this theme (you can find the other papers for this workshop here ).
Clare Heyward (2014) Benefiting from Climate Geoengineering and Corresponding Remedial Duties: The Case of Unforeseeable Harms. Published on early view in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. dii:10.1111/japp.12075
Report on the CGG Geoengineering Debate, Brighton, 7 November 2013
Pak-Hang Wong (2015a) Confucian Environmental Ethics, Climate Engineering and the “Playing God” Argument. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 50 (1), 28-41. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12151/epdf
Rob Bellamy & Peter Healey (2015) A Report on the CGG Project Scenarios Workshop, 13 October 2014
Clare Heyward (2015 forthcoming) Is there anything new under the sun? Exceptionalism, novelty and debating geoengineering governance. Aaron Maltais & Catriona MacKinnon (eds) London: Rowman & Littlefield
Pak-Hang Wong (2015b) Consenting to Geoengineering. Philos. Technol. DOI 10.1007/s13347-015-0203-1 Published online: 07 June 2015