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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons. There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6).

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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

Legal Planet

But rules and norms about such technologies are patchy, and recent unauthorized experiments have set alarm bells ringing. Another delegate suggested to us that the US sees itself as having a technological lead in this area – which it might keep by limiting the sorts of information shared.