etc Group: Time to Wave the White Flag for a Failed Techno-Fix?
„The Volkswagen scandal is a warning that the Fossil Majors can’t be trusted to control GHG emissions“
CO₂-removal News
The Economist: Brightening the clouds
Interview with Oliver Morton on his new book.
Motherboard: The Next $20 Million XPrize Will Go to the Machine that Turns Carbon Into Cash
„The next $20 million XPrize will be awarded to whomever can master technology that transforms carbon emissions from a planet-warming pollutant into a salable commodity. XPrize, the nonprofit whose chief aim is “to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity,” and whose past innovation contests have included a $30 million program to put a privately funded robot on the moon, is turning to the energy space.“
Long, Jane C. S. (2015): Geoengineering: Journey into geopoetry
Long, Jane C. S. (2015): Geoengineering: Journey into geopoetry. In Nature 526 (7571), pp.[nbsp]38–39. DOI: 10.1038/526038a[nbsp]
Review of Morton, Oliver (2015). „Oliver Morton, briefings editor at The Economist, starts by asking: do you think climate change is a problem, and the energy system easy to change? Using this dialectic, he explores the thesis that the climate crisis cannot be solved, but could be managed.“
Martindale, L. (2015): Understanding humans in the Anthropocene. Finding answers in geoengineering and Transition Towns
Martindale, L. (2015): Understanding humans in the Anthropocene. Finding answers in geoengineering and Transition Towns. In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. DOI: 10.1177/0263775815604914[nbsp]
„This paper argues that the approaches to global environmental change engendered by conventional environmental discourse have undermined the radical connotations of the Anthropocene. […] Using this experimental perspective, this paper offers the creative example of how Transition Towns may become concordant with local geoengineering practices.“
Irish Times: Could cloud brightening be Earth’s last chance?
„A project aims to manipulate cloud formations in order to combat climate change. The naysayers are lining up, but the group argues there are few viable options left“
The Energy Collective: The Problematic Governance of Climate Engineering
„Deployment of climate engineering faces formidable and perhaps insurmountable governance challenges, even if it looks technically feasible.[nbsp] This prospect should reinforce efforts to reduce emissions. „
Peel, Jacqueline (2015): The Practice of Shared Responsibility in relation to Climate Change
Peel, Jacqueline (2015): The Practice of Shared Responsibility in relation to Climate Change (SHARES Research Paper, 71).
Paper on shared responsibility and climate change including some comments on CE. „In the future, similar prospects of shared responsibility might be raised by geoengineering projects (or from another perspective, large-scale adaptation measures such as seawalls), which are jointly undertaken and/or funded by several states or international organisations. For example, failure of a solar radiation management project, such as deployment of a large array of reflective mirrors in space, could result in substantial physical and other damage, leading to responsibility claims against the states involved.“
Böttcher, Miranda; et al. (2015): Scenarios on Stratospheric Albedo Modification Deployment in 2030. Workshop Report
Böttcher, Miranda; Gabriel, Johannes; Harnisch, Sebastian (2015): Scenarios on Stratospheric Albedo Modification Deployment in 2030. Workshop Report. Priority Programme 1689 of the German Research Foundation DFG.
„The goal of this SPP 1689 scenario project was to develop a first appraisal of what effects a high-risk climate intervention technology such as SAM could have on the dynamics of international relations. More concretely, it aimed to develop scenarios regarding “Political decision-making on stratospheric albedo modification deployment in 2030” to examine under which conditions states could opt for SAM deployment.“
Blog.Castac.Org: Making Rain and Letting Shine: Geoengineers Biopolitics
„Geoengineering is a diverse set of environmental technologies proposed to intervene strategically in Earth processes in order to combat climate change. Take for example, a plan to reduce solar radiation via aerosol clouds emitted from airplanes, or one that attempts to remediate ocean acidification by means of algae blooms created by dumping iron from ships.“