Global Space Governance Can Fuel New Business and Innovations

摘要

From May 29 to May 31, some of the world's leading experts on space laws, policies, regulations and standards assembled at the McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law in Montreal to consider launching an initiative to bring an improved system of global governance to the burgeoning field of space commercial exploitation, use and scientific exploration. This effort will also undertake new efforts known as planetary protection. Some 125 participants from 22 countries reviewed the rather dismal landscape of recent efforts to reach agreement on new space treaties or any type of consensus of international law for outer space. It was widely acknowledged that there have been no major treaties widely agreed upon since the 1970s.