„The second issue is geo-engineering, specifically through modifying the Earth’s albedo (reflectivity). In February 2015 the National Research Council released a two-volume report on geo-engineering, which covered both of its two common meanings: carbon capture and albedo modification.“
On climate economy including CE. „We know enough about geoengineering to know that it could in fact work, in the sense of helping to lower average temperatures. We don’t know the full costs. As an economist, looking at this, what I would say is that you ought, at the very least, come up with a proper cost-benefit analysis.“
„I am not at this point confident that climate-engineering would be of value in alleviating our concerns, especially given our history on environmental interventions. The current political and legal environment appears to commit us to trying to control carbon dioxide emissions.“
Curvelo, Paula (2015): Geoengineering dreams. In: Angela Guimaraes Pereira und Silvio Funtowicz (Hg.): Science, Philosophy and Sustainability. The End of the Cartesian dream. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis (Routledge Explorations in Sustainability and Governance), S. 114–132.
„In fact, as we will see next, the attempt to untangle the abiguities associated with the term through the identification of this key characteristics[nbsp] of geoengineering action generates even more obscurity in an already clouded field.“
Sustainable Shipping Initiative (2015): Signals of Change. Looking at the potential impact of emerging signals of change on the future of sustainable shipping.
Report with one page (p. 23) on CE. „If geoengineering starts to gain mainstream acceptance, there may be the opportunity, or even expectation, for shipping industry players to invest in studies and innovative implementation of these solutions.“
German newspaper article on CE.
„Net zero emissions by 2050 makes assumptions about new technologies which may not be realistic – The credibility of Bioenergy [&] CCS as a climate change mitigation option is unproven – Huge upscaling efforts in BECCS will be needed to get to net negative emissions by 2050“
„Injecting gases into the sky to reflect sunlight should be a last resort“
Including audio and transcript. „A panel of speakers at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Jose tossed around a few of the challenges.“
Radio broadcast on CE including an interview with Tim Kruger.
