Right to Food and Geoengineering
Kortetmäki, T., & Oksanen, M. (2023). Right to Food and Geoengineering. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 36, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-023-09898-7
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Climate change poses grave risks to food security, and mitigation and adaptation actions have so far been insufficient to lessen the risk of climate-induced violations of the right to food. Could safeguarding the right to food, then, justify some forms of geoengineering? This article examines geoengineering through the analytical lens of the right to food. We look at the components of food security and consider how the acceptability of geoengineering relates to the right to food via its impacts on these components. Our examination shows that results vary greatly between different forms of geoengineering: while some forms of geoengineering fail to respect the right to food, certain other forms may even become obligatory to protect the right to food. It appears that there is no support for aerosol-based solar radiation management, whereas some carbon dioxide removal methods can help protect or promote the right to food. The ethical challenges related to carbon dioxide removal methods are, we note, similar to those that will also be faced in the course of climate change mitigation.
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This work has been supported by the Strategic Research Council Grant #327369 ’Just transition: Tackling inequalities on the way to a sustainable, healthy and climate-neutral food system (JUST-FOOD)’. Open Access funding provided by University of Jyväskylä (JYU).License
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