Climate security

Geoengineering: A Dangerous Tool or Climate Control of the Future?

To combat climate change, some geoengineering technologies can capture carbon emissions and store them in the ocean or underground. Other technologies could disperse sulfuric acid or aerosol particles into the stratosphere to deflect sunlight and cool the planet. Climate engineering has not yet been tested outside the laboratory or field research.

Over 190 countries have agreed to a 2010 United Nations ban on using the climate engineering technology for large-scale climate engineering over concerns of its effect on biodiversity.

However, the U.S. was not part of the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Biological Diversity and has not ratified the 2010 modification. President Donald Trump has criticized the U.N. and has a draft of an executive order to defund the U.N. The American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017 calls for full U.S. withdrawal from the U.N.