“Issues in the Emerging Space 5.0 Era: Environmental Liability at the Frontier” by Timiebi Aganaba

ABSTRACT

Waste is an inevitable by-product of any activity. The waste problem we have today in space is space debris, and tomorrow, will be as a result of the establishment of an in-space economy. Space Debris is a growing problem and left unchecked has the potential to reduce the ability of humanity to use and enjoy the outer space environment, as future visions of our utilization of the space environment propose.

Given the challenges of liability for environmental damage this discussion hopes to spur food for thought concerning other ways to be environmentally conscious in the space environment, and provide for inter generational justice.

BIOGRAPHY

 Timiebi Aganaba, LLB, BL, MSc, LLM, DCL, Assistant Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society with a courtesy appointment at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, USA. Timiebi was a post-doctoral fellow and fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) based in Waterloo, Ontario Canada where she focused on climate change law and technological solutions to environmental governance challenges. She also participated in a Canada-India Track 1.5 Dialogue where she focused on Climate engineering governance. She was an observer at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn and Marrakech.

 

Timiebi was Executive Director of the World Space Week Association coordinating the global response to the UN 1999 declaration that World Space Week should be celebrated Oct 4-10 annually. She is currently on the Advisory Board for the Space Generation Advisory Council supporting the UN Programme on Space Applications. She is also on the Advisory Board of World View Enterprises, a stratospheric balloon company.  Other positions include 4 years as a space industry consultant for the leading space analyst firm in Montreal, Canada where Timiebi led a pipeline of commercialization studies for the Canadian Space Agency and led the sociology aspects of a socioeconomic assessment of the Canadian space sector.

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