February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... mass ejections, solar radiation flares and other cosmic events that threaten our daily existence. The Global Space Governance Study is now addressing the technical challenges and regulatory actions for a comprehensive planetary defence strategy. Sir...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... for the conduct of international and interdisciplinary deliberations on different aspects and perspectives of global space governance; Recognizing that the current global space governance system that was created during the 1960s and 1970s has not...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... and defence concerns kept nations from total agreement. One of the great weaknesses in the process in which global space governance is developed today is that technologists work in isolation from lawyers and policy makers Now is the time to kick...
March 2026
The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability
... emerging issues and challenges” on its provisional agenda for sessions up to 2029. Governance in an unequal space age Space governance reflects long-standing global inequalities. The foundational treaties were shaped at a time when only a few...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... is interrelated with everything else. There is therefore an urgent need for a more comprehensive and ‘holistic’ system of global space governance going forward. Moving away from our existing silo approach is an important first step. About the author...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... words, what is increasingly lacking is a prudent, efficient and strong global governance - including a robust space governance system. By global space governance we mean a collection of space-related international binding agreements and non-binding...
