CEC17: Opening Event (Video)
„Due to the limited success of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, climate engineering (CE) has been increasingly studied in recent years. Often defined as intentional, large-scale interventions in the global climate to counteract some of the effects of climate change, climate engineering techniques continue to be the subject of contentious debate in different in political, scientific and cultural fora. Following the success of the first large international conference on climate engineering in 2014, the IASS and its partners hosted the Climate Engineering Conference 2017: Critical Global Discussions – in Berlin from 9 to 12 October 2017.“