Issues in Legal Scholarship

Balancing the Risks: Managing Technology and Dangerous Climate Change

Introduction

Inaugurated July 2009

The risk of catastrophic climate change puts uncertainties associated with innovative energy and carbon sequestration technology in a new light, and the short time for effective greenhouse gas emission reduction challenges public decision-making processes. Our interest in this topic has been spurred by the drive to bring new energy and green house gas emission reduction technologies to market rapidly, although some are untested at scale and others are still in the laboratory. This symposium issue covers a range of issues in U.S. and international law that are raised by technologies including carbon capture and sequestration, geo-engineering, and nuclear power.

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Symposium editor:

Cymie R. Payne, University of California, Berkeley