Environmentalists Urge U.N. to Halt Geo-Engineering Projects
Environmentalists Urge
U.N. to Halt Geo-Engineering Projects
Environmentalist organizations around the world are calling for the UN to impose a moratorium on “geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and cloud-seeding projects, saying they could do significant harm to both nature and mankind.
The groups asked for the ban at a UN meeting in Japan called to find solutions to the global problem of disappearing species. They said that the risk of such projects is just too great because the impacts of manipulating nature on a vast scale are not fully known.
Envoys from almost 200 separate nations are gathered in Nagoya, Japan to discuss ways to fight the destruction of forests, coral reefs, and rivers that are home to thousands of species, and provide vital resources central to the livelihoods and economies of many nations. A major cause of the rapid losses in nature is climate change, says the UN, and the agency urged the people of the world to do everything they can to help curb global warming and prevent floods, rising sea levels, and extreme droughts.
A handful of countries consider geo-engineering projects, which tend to cost in the billions of dollars, a way of controlling climate change, by either limiting the amount of sunlight that hits the earth or absorbing excess greenhouse gas emissions, mainly those of carbon dioxide. Critics, however, argue that these nations are simply using the geo-engineering projects to avoid taking steps to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The UN's climate panel said that a review of geo-engineering will be included in its next major report, due in 2013.
Environmentalist organizations around the world are calling for the UN to impose a moratorium on “geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and cloud-seeding projects, saying they could do significant harm to both nature and mankind.
The groups asked for the ban at a UN meeting in Japan called to find solutions to the global problem of disappearing species. They said that the risk of such projects is just too great because the impacts of manipulating nature on a vast scale are not fully known.
Envoys from almost 200 separate nations are gathered in Nagoya, Japan to discuss ways to fight the destruction of forests, coral reefs, and rivers that are home to thousands of species, and provide vital resources central to the livelihoods and economies of many nations. A major cause of the rapid losses in nature is climate change, says the UN, and the agency urged the people of the world to do everything they can to help curb global warming and prevent floods, rising sea levels, and extreme droughts.
A handful of countries consider geo-engineering projects, which tend to cost in the billions of dollars, a way of controlling climate change, by either limiting the amount of sunlight that hits the earth or absorbing excess greenhouse gas emissions, mainly those of carbon dioxide. Critics, however, argue that these nations are simply using the geo-engineering projects to avoid taking steps to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The UN's climate panel said that a review of geo-engineering will be included in its next major report, due in 2013.
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