Five questions for discussion about climate change:
- Are the provisions of, for example, the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol justified from a moral point of view?
- Do highly developed countries that have passed the path of economic development since the industrial revolution have a moral right to force other development models on developing countries?
- Who is ultimately responsible for the climate change we are experiencing today and who will bear responsibility for the changes that future generations will experience?
- Who should bear the financial costs of the so-called adaptation mechanisms fixed, among others during the COP in Warsaw and Marrakech?
- Is it reasonable to use the term "adaptive mechanisms" for countries and nations that bear the greatest costs of climate change, and who do not owe them the least?
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Dera Sania, Dear M.A.A. Al-Fatlawi,
thank you so much for your interesting and responses.
Dear Professor Towe,
As I understand the situation, climate changes associated with the increase in the average surface temperature of the Earth require participants in the international community to take measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
As I remember, one of the considered ways to solve this problem is to "store" them in submarine geological formations. This issue became the subject of interest and work of the legal group established by the States Parties to the Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Seas by Waste Sapping and Other Substances of 29 December 1972, also known as the London Convention.
The parties have committed themselves to support projects aimed at protecting the marine environment from pollution, among others by hydrocarbons, including petroleum products, and their wastes and wastes arising from the operation of ships, aircraft, platforms and other devices placed in the sea.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are one of the fundamental threats in this respect. This is why work on a number of legal aspects of the problem has been continued. They include the question of the responsibility of states for damage caused in the environment of other states or in any other zone of this environment by dumping waste and all other substances. The relevant provisions of the London Convention in this area have been repeated in the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Sinking Waste and Other Substances of 7 November 1996.
Assuming some modifications to this method, it was returned in the "IPCC Special Report on Capture and Storage of Carbon Dioxide", which contains information about CO2 absorption methods and techniques for its transport and storage, eg in the ocean or geological formations.
Dear Professor,
Do you think, therefore, that this way of seeking a solution to the problem is categorically incorrect and unacceptable? If so, where would you think to look for solutions, particularly those that can contribute to the problem of legal regulation in the sphere of international law?
Best regards to all of you!
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