Solar Energy

Geoengineering – large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s natural systems – is increasingly being presented as a strategy to counteract, dilute or delay climate change. Which international legal norms and agreements would contradict the different measures?

Geoengineering technologies are not yet deployable globally, but support for them is advancing fast, thanks to backing by powerful advocates eager to start experiments. But no silver bullet for climate change exists, and we must not abandon proven methods for the sake of a promise that one will be found.

A quick overview of the world’s state of affairs with regard to energy shows that the global energy transition is now picking up speed, as Ralf Fücks points out.

The continual discovery of new oil and gas reserves by ever-improving technological advances drives the idea of resource scarcity into absurdity. But at what price? In the foreseeable future, the critical boundaries of growth are not in the exhaustion of fuel sources and raw materials, but rather in the burden placed on critical ecosystems.