PANEL: The Artemis Accords & The Moon Agreement   Living in Harmony
Channel: Secure World Foundation
Date: 2023-06-16

The decades-long debate over the appropriate governance framework for extraction and use of space resources and how to coordinate lunar activities has experienced a recent resurgence in salience with the many plans to return to the Moon. The announcement of the Artemis Accords in 2020 was seen by some as an attack on the principles put forward in the 1979 Moon Agreement, yet three of the signatories to the Accords are also parties to the Moon Agreement. This panel will discuss whether or not these two frameworks are indeed in competition with each other and how future governmental and commercial lunar activities might actually be governed.

Speakers: 
Gustavo Medina-Tanco — LINX ICN UNAM
Emily Pierce — Attorney-Adviser, U.S. Department of State
Antonino Salmeri — Lunar Policy Platform; Space Generation Advisory Council
Mike Gold — Chief Growth Officer, Redwire

Moderator: 
Christopher Johnson — Space Law Advisor, Secure World Foundation