MacMartin, Douglas G.; et al. (2019): Technical characteristics of a solar geoengineering deployment and implications for governance
MacMartin, Douglas G.; Irvine, Peter J.; Kravitz, Ben; Horton, Joshua B. (2019): Technical characteristics of a solar geoengineering deployment and implications for governance. In Climate Policy 22, pp.[nbsp]1–15. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1668347.
„We examine the science of solar geoengineering in order to clarify the technical dimensions of decisions about deployment – both strategic and operational – and how these might influence governance considerations, while consciously refraining from making specific recommendations. The focus here is on a hypothetical deployment rather than governance of the research itself. We first consider the complexity surrounding the design of a deployment scheme, in particular the complicated and difficult decision of what its objective(s) would be, given that different choices for how to deploy will lead to different climate outcomes. Next, we discuss the on-going decisions across multiple timescales, from the sub-annual to the multi-decadal.“