Roundtable – Ocean Climate Geoengineering: An Assessment of Potential Risks, Benefits and Governance

February 5, 2019 -
Baltimore, U.S.A.

WOC Secretariat participated in the Roundtable – Ocean Climate Geoengineering: An Assessment of Potential Risks, Benefits and Governance as Co-Organizer in Baltimore on 5 February.

The Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies hosted a roundtable on 5 February to launch a new report published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), entitled “Ocean Climate Geoengineering: An Assessment of Potential Risks, Benefits and Governance”.

Roundtable participants included the report’s authors, Wil Burns, Professor of Research and Co-Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy at American University, Jeffrey McGee, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, Marine and Antarctic Law at the University of Tasmania’s Faculty of Law, and Kerryn Brent, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania.

The event was moderated by Johannes Urpelainen, Director and Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment & Founding Director, Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) at Johns Hopkins University.