Fritz et al. (2025): Between inflated expectations and inherent distrust: How publics see the role of experts in governing climate intervention technologies
Livia Fritz, Lucilla Losi, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low, Benjamin K. Sovacool IN: Environmental Science and Policy, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104005
Addressing questions around more effective governance of novel technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and proposals around solar radiation modification necessitates reflections on how different kinds of expertise, normative judgments and democratic decision-making (should) interact. Based on a survey (N = 22,222) and 44 focus groups (N = 323) in 22 countries, the authors show (i) who publics see as an expert in the field of climate intervention technologies, (ii) what roles they envision for experts in governing climate intervention technologies and (iii) how trust and distrust in scientists unfolds in the context of these novel, partly controversial, technologies.