Cooperation workgroup

1 month ago | moderndiplomacy.eu | Dennis O’Brien |O’Brien sits |Cooperation workgroup

At its February meeting, the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) formally created ATLAC, the Action Team on Lunar Activities Consultation. In doing so, it may have provided the missing piece in the evolving framework of governance for the Moon, and perhaps beyond. ATLAC’s mandate, along with the efforts of the Working Group on Legal Aspects of Outer Space Resources, gives us an early glimpse into how the international community will govern activity on the Moon.

May 26, 2024 | moderndiplomacy.eu | Dennis O’Brien |O’Brien sits |Cooperation workgroup

The United Nations sponsored two meetings of space resource experts this spring, one in Luxembourg in March and the other in Vienna in April. The meetings were part of public outreach by the new Working Group on the Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activity (Working Group), created by the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). The experts were selected by the member states of COPUOS.