Monat: Oktober 2018

Harvard Kennedy School: Harvard Project Conducts Research Workshop on Governance of Solar Geoengineering

„The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements conducted a research workshop, “Governance of the Deployment of Solar Geoengineering,” September 27 – 28, 2018 at Harvard Kennedy School.[nbsp][nbsp]Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program (HSGRP) collaborated and provided support for the workshop. Participants included 26 leading academic researchers addressing the workshop’s topic as well as scholars who had considered the governance of other international regimes that might provide lessons and insights for solar geoengineering governance.

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Rabitz, F. (2018): Governing the termination problem in solar radiation management

Rabitz, F. (2018): Governing the termination problem in solar radiation management. In: Environmental Politics 22, S. 1–21. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2018.1519879.

„Technologies for Solar Radiation Management (SRM) could limit global warming by manipulating the Earth’s radiation balance. A major objection to SRM is the termination problem: the catastrophic consequences that are likely to result from its sudden discontinuation. The termination problem limits the reversibility of policy choices and poses the risk of inadvertent or enforced program collapse.“

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Fridahl, M. (Ed.) (2018): Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. From global potentials to domestic realities

Fridahl, M. (Ed.) (2018): Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. From global potentials to domestic realities. Brussels: The European Liberal Forum. Online verfügbar unter http://fores.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BECCS_Fridahl_editor.pdf, 29.10.2018.

„This book explores the role of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in climate governance. It starts by discussing BECCS’ global mitigation potential, as depicted in the idealized world of climate scenarios. Chapter 2 shows that almost all climate scenarios compatible with the high likelihood of limiting global warming to 2°C deploy BECCS. While excluding BECCS from these models’ technology portfolios does not necessarily make 2°C compatible scenarios impossible, it does mean that the projected cost of meeting that goal increases.“

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Online Workshops: Greenhouse Gas Removal

December 2018 and January 2019

Our research group at the Lancaster Environment Centre is convening a series of four short deliberative online workshops on greenhouse gas removal to be held in December 2018 and January 2019. The dates and timings will be finalised in consultation with potential participants. The events will involve diverse stakeholders with interests in greenhouse gas/carbon removal to explore scenarios for the development of relevant technologies and ways they might be best guided to ensure it contributes effectively to tackling climate change. All the online workshops will discuss these technologies in general, focusing to a greater or lesser degree on one or more of the specific technologies suggested, depending in part on the mix of expertise amongst participants.“

Contact: d.mclaren@lancaster.ac.uk