Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene

• Autore: Verschuuren Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetto topico: Climate change mitigation; Climatic changes - Law and legislation
• Altri autori: DaviesGareth HuhtaKaisa HolzerKateryna YaminevaYulia ZhangHao FlemingRuven PailmanKelsey AlessandriniMirta van ZebenJosephine
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Aim of this book -- 1.2 Chapter overview -- 1.2.1 Climate technologies -- 1.2.2 The broader normative context -- 1.3 Conclusion -- PART 1 Climate Technologies -- 2 Are Renewable Energy Technologies Compatible with Biodiversity Conservation? The Energy-.Conservation Legal Nexus -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The RE/biodiversity conservation trade-off -- 2.3 The nexus of energy law and conservation law -- 2.4 The RE-.conservation trade-.off in the Green New Deal and Green Deal -- 2.4.1 United States -- 2.4.2 European Union -- 2.4.2.1 RE targets -- 2.4.2.2 Shifting the nexus: from 'climate' to 'security' -- 2.4.2.3 RED III -- 2.4.2.4 Permit-.granting process in 'renewables acceleration areas' -- 2.4.2.5 Permit-.granting process outside renewables acceleration areas -- 2.4.2.6 Regulation 2022/2577 to accelerate the European transition toward RE -- 2.4.2.7 Nature Restoration Law -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Funding acknowledgment -- 3 Ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions: The Case of Hydropower -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Power dams in NDCs -- 3.2.1 Preliminary observations -- 3.2.2 The major players -- 3.2.3 Lesser promoters -- 3.2.4 Brazil -- 3.3 Will power dams deliver the promised additional mitigation? -- 4 An Essential Zero-Carbon Solution or a Perilous Energy Technology? Exploring the Nuclear Debate in EU Law -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Reviewing the facts and arguments of the nuclear debate -- 4.2.1 Core reasons against nuclear energy: an unsafe and risky energy form that should not be used in the modern world -- 4.2.2 Core reasons in favour of nuclear energy: a necessary energy technology to support the low-.carbon transition and supply. ; 4.3 The legal side of the nuclear debate: 60+ years of nuclear law in the EU -- 4.3.1 Constitutional foundations: Euratom and the EU member states' right to choose their energy mix -- 4.3.2 The nuclear debate playing out in case-law: opposing nuclear energy is not an argument that can be won in the EU courts -- 4.4 Legislative developments in the EU nuclear debate -- 4.5 Concluding thoughts -- Acknowledgement -- 5 Critical Raw Materials in the Anthropocene: Regulatory Perspectives on their Promise and Pitfalls -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 CRMs in the low-carbon transition: balancing the promise and pitfalls of the regulatory complexities -- 5.2.1 Unpacking the dynamic CRM landscape: key facts -- 5.2.2 Emerging challenges associated with CRMs -- 5.2.3 The legal and regulatory context of CRMs -- 5.2.4 The development of CRM-specific regulatory frameworks -- 5.3 Contrasting perspectives on CRMs in the Anthropocene -- 5.3.1 Overcoming the imminent challenge: sustainable regulation of CRMs -- 5.3.2 Striking a balance: a safe operating space for CRMs? -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 6 Hydrogen: What Does its Deployment at Speed and Scale Mean for Legal Systems? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Current status: literature review on hydrogen regulation -- 6.2.1 Hydrogen production: defining the transition -- 6.2.2 Hydrogen transmission and distribution: transporting the transition -- 6.2.3 Hydrogen customer end-use: (em)powering the transition -- 6.3 Three central battlegrounds for the creation and implementation of hydrogen-specific legislation -- 6.3.1 Who owns the hydrogen grids? State-owned grid company vs private companies (and who pays for them?) -- 6.3.2 Hydrogen in the heating sector -- 6.3.3 What actually is sustainable in green, clean and renewable hydrogen? -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement. ; 7 Genetically Modified Organisms: Is the Proof in the Pudding or in the Process? -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Defining GMOs legally -- 7.2.1 Defining the definition -- 7.2.2 Applying definitions -- 7.2.3 State of the debate -- 7.3 Managing uncertainty: risk and the precautionary principle -- 7.3.1 The risk-precaution dichotomy -- 7.3.2 State of the debate -- 7.4 GMOs in food security and sustainable agriculture -- 7.4.1 Feeding tomorrow's world in a more sustainable way? -- 7.4.2 State of the debate -- 7.5 Conclusions and outlook -- 8 Cultivated Meat and Dairy as a Game-Changing Technology in the Agricultural and Food Transition in the EU: What Role for -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Impact of meat and dairy and the need for a food transition -- 8.3 Current and proposed regulatory approaches to reducing emissions from livestock in the EU: pollution control, climate change mitigation, agricultural income support -- 8.4 What is cultivated meat and dairy and what are the benefits and pitfalls? -- 8.5 What role for law? -- 8.5.1 Regulatory approaches to reduce meat and dairy production and consumption -- 8.5.2 Regulatory approaches to stimulate production and consumption of cultivated meat and dairy -- 8.5.3 Regulatory approaches to guide safe, nutritious, fair and sustainable production of cultivated meat and dairy -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 9 Regulating Geoengineering -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Regulating geoengineering: a naive approach -- 9.3 Geoengineering as a political act -- 9.3.1 Attitudes to geoengineering -- 9.3.2 The emergence of scientific 'solutionism' -- 9.3.3 Hostility to geoengineering -- 9.3.3.1 Geoenginering is dangerous -- 9.3.3.2 Geoengineering is speculative -- 9.3.3.3 Taking geoengineering seriously undermines emission reduction -- 9.3.4 Geoengineering tries to rescue capitalism. ; 9.3.5 Geoengineering disrupts the professional status quo -- 9.4 Rethinking regulation of geoengineering -- 10 Why Researching Solar Radiation Management Technologies Is Essential and Governable -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The potential benefits and risks of SRM -- 10.3 Refuting the arguments opposing SRM R& -- D -- 10.3.1 Claim 1: SRM research creates a moral hazard -- 10.3.2 Claim 2: The blurred line between SRM research and deployment -- 10.3.3 Claim 3: SRM is ungovernable -- 10.3.4 Claim 4: SRM poses insurmountable risks of unilateral deployment -- 10.4 The international community should avoid choosing to live in ignorance of SRM -- 10.5 Conclusion -- 11 Whither Law and Regulation on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technology? A Comparative Analysis -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 International and jurisdictional regulatory frameworks for CCS -- 11.2.1 CCS and international law -- 11.2.2 CCS development and regulatory framework in the EU -- 11.2.3 CCS development and regulatory framework in China -- 11.3 Legal and regulatory obstacles for CCS development -- 11.3.1 Inadequate incorporation of CCS into climate mitigation strategies -- 11.3.2 Legal barriers hindering the advancement of CCS -- 11.3.3 Absence of universally recognized regulatory frameworks underpinned by international law -- 11.4 Insights for climate technology-law interface in the context of climate emergency -- 11.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 12 Evidence-Based Climate Law? The Case of Carbon Capture, Use and Storage -- 12.1 A significant expansion of carbon capture, use and storage as part of climate law and regulation? -- 12.2 Knowledge resources for climate law -- 12.2.1 Why focus on evidence about the economics of climate-mitigation technologies? -- 12.2.2 Insights from the literature on evidence-based public policy making and regulation. ; 12.2.3 Two insights from STS : boundary objects and a non-instrumental conception of technology -- 12.3 Should states intervene in private business activity to promote CCUS? -- 12.3.1 Is CCUS necessary but too costly for the private sector to implement it alone? -- 12.3.2 How does the UK government propose to intervene in private economic activity to promote CCUS? -- 12.3.2.1 Providing financial support for CO2 transport and storage companies -- 12.3.2.2 Revenue support for CO2 capture from industry and hydrogen production -- 12.4 Parts 1 and 2 of the Energy Act 2023: boundary objects? -- 12.4.1 Interpretative flexibility -- 12.4.2 Linking unstructured features to locally tailored uses -- 12.4.3 Coordination in the absence of agreement between actors -- 12.5 CCUS as limiting radical transformation of energy and production systems? -- 12.5.1 Does CCUS promote fossil fuel 'lock-in' and 'unlocking'? -- 12.5.2 Limiting the circular economy and democratically controlled renewable-energy projects? -- 12.5.3 Limiting the development of small-scale democratically controlled renewable-energy community projects? -- 12.6 Conclusion: Legal rules as boundary objects mitigating evidence deficits about the costs of CCUS? -- 13 Nature-Based Climate Solutions and the Rights of Nature: A Conundrum of Values -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 NBCS, NC and ecosystem services -- 13.3 Posthumanism and RoN -- 13.4 Integrating aspects of RoN into NBCS -- 13.5 Conclusion -- 14 Ban on Coal: Rationale and Legality for Restrictions on Coal Production, Sale and Use -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Coal as an energy source -- 14.3 Climate restrictions on coal in international law and governance -- 14.3.1 International air pollution regulation -- 14.3.2 International climate change law -- 14.3.3 Informal coal phase-out governance -- 14.3.4 Would an internationally imposed ban be possible?. ; 14.4 Restrictions on coal production, sale and use in national legislation and policy.
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume examines the intersection of climate technology, law, and governance in the Anthropocene era, addressing the challenges of mitigating climate change through technological innovation while navigating legal and ethical implications. It explores topics such as renewable energy, biodiversity, nuclear energy, hydrogen deployment, genetically modified organisms, cultivated food, solar radiation management, carbon capture, and nature-based solutions. The book also delves into broader normative contexts, including energy justice, intellectual property, international trade law, and the architecture of climate governance. Written by a diverse group of scholars, it targets policymakers, legal practitioners, academics, and students interested in environmental law, climate policy, and sustainable development.
• Titolo autorizzato: Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene
• ISBN: 1-5292-3291-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911012678303321
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