Federal cabinet endorses law limiting marine geoengineering
Clean Energy Wire
The German federal cabinet has decided on a draft law to restrict marine geoengineering, technology involving large-scale technical measures to artificially reduce the atmosphere’s CO2 concentration, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) has announced in a press release. In accordance with additional requirements under the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Protocol), the new law, which has to be voted on in parliament, would permit so-called sea fertilisation in German waters only under strict conditions and for research purposes, the BMU writes.
Read the press release in German here.
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