Issued today. "There is a need for international coordination to foster transparency, clarity and consistency of relevant policies and regulations, ... to effectively address and promote the safety and #sustainability of #space activities."
@richard As an outsider looking in at the COPUOS process in recent years, it's painfully slow (by design). It's a consensus body, and any one member State can hold up the proceedings (and States have done just that). It seems ill-suited to govern a realm where the pace of change in recent years has been lightning-fast. Yet every year COPUOS debates whether to continue even talking about these issues.
@richard This declaration reads to me mainly as an affirmation of the existing process at COPUOS and doesn't really contain anything new. Maybe it's subtly pushing back on the Artemis Accords (as more countries sign them) as being too U.S.-centric. I'm not sure; I knew nothing about this conference or the declaration until it popped up earlier today on social media.
@richard Agreed. It seems sort of one-sided, which is why I mentioned Artemis. OST signatories have recently breached the treaty, indicating that they won't be bound by it any airtight manner. And I'm afraid that we're looking at outright acts of war in space sooner rather than later (and nothing can stop that now).
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