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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent

Climate geoengineering must be regulated, says former WTO head

White cumulus fluffy clouds in the sky.
There are concerns that cloud whitening could change rainfall patterns among other unintended consequences of geoengineering. Photograph: Vera Shestak/Alamy

Countries must urgently agree a way of controlling and regulating attempts to geoengineer the climate, and consider whether to set a moratorium on such efforts, as the danger of global heating exceeding the 1.5C threshold increases, the former head of the World Trade Organisation has warned.

Pascal Lamy, a former director general of the WTO and a former EU trade commissioner, now president of the Paris Peace Forum, said governments were increasingly likely to explore the possibilities of geoengineering, as efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions have so far been inadequate.

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