European Parliament resolution of 29 September 2011
Petition expresses opposition on CE.
Petition expresses opposition on CE.
The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Federal Parliament (TAB) has commissioned a report on the regulation and assessment of climate engineering.
„Das Max-Planck-Forum erörtert Für und Wider der derzeitigen Möglichkeiten der Geo-Ingenieure und fragt nach den aktuellen Handlungsspielräumen. Brauchen wir GeoEngineering wirklich oder ist es nur ein bequemer Ausweg für Politiker, das globale Klimaproblem ohne schwierige diplomatische Verhandlungen in den Griff zu bekommen?“
Podiumsdiskussionsgäste: Prof. Dr. Meinrat Andreae, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz
Dr. Hauke Schmidt, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Essen-Duisburg
Article on needs for more and better information on the pros and cons. Government and scientists need more research to achieve better information.
„The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, named atmospheric scientist PD Dr. Mark Lawrence (42) scientific director. […] Mark Lawrence will lead the IASS research cluster Sustainable Interactions with the Atmosphere (SIWA), which focuses on developing a sustainability-driven approach to managing human influence on the earth’s atmospheric composition with negligible or controllable short and long term impact on the climate, our health and ecosystems. His research at IASS will examine the relationship between air pollution and climate change in the age of urbanization, as well as the opportunities and risks presented by climate engineering, targeted intervention in the atmosphere’s chemical and physical processes as a means of reducing climate change.“
See the English press release under ‚read more‘. For German version klick here.
„The Oxford Geoengineering Programme, a new interdisciplinary initiative of the Oxford Martin School, has issued a press release to call for an internationally accepted code of conduct for geoengineering research.“
Bodansky, Daniel (September 2011): “Governing Climate Engineering: Scenarios for Analysis” Discussion Paper 2011-47, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements.
Discussion paper with analysis of potential CE deployment scenarios.
The project will investigate the feasibility of one so-called geoengineering
technique: the idea of simulating natural processes that release small particles
into the stratosphere, which then reflect a few percent of incoming solar
radiation, with the effect of cooling the Earth with relative speed.
Article on needs for more and better information on the pros and cons. Government and scientists need more research to achieve better information.
Abrams, J.; Völker, C.; Wolf-Gladrow, D.; Köhler, P. (2011): The Geoengineering Possibilities and Impact of Enhanced Silicate Weathering in the Ocean. In: Mineralogical Magazine 75 (3), p. 404.
Research on CO2 sequestration via olivine.