The Economist: Into the great wide open
„Scientific studies of techniques for deliberately modifying the climate are getting ready to move out of the laboratory“
„Scientific studies of techniques for deliberately modifying the climate are getting ready to move out of the laboratory“
On field testing. „Experiments designed to learn more about ways of geoengineering the climate should be allowed to proceed“
Manoussi, Vassiliki; Xepapadeas, Anastasios (2014): Cooperation and Competition in Climate Change Policies. Mitigation and Climate Engineering When Countries are Asymmetric. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) (FEEM Working Paper).
„We study a dynamic game of climate policy design in terms of emissions and solar radiation management (SRM) involving two heterogeneous regions or countries.„
Response to newsweek issue. „We asked a few colleagues what they make of the suggestion that a geoengineering response might mean that the world never needs to get its act together to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions?“
Andy Parker (IASS-Potsdam) and Jim Thomas (ETC Group) debate the question: „is climate engineering worthy of consideration?„
Guest Post – David Morrow, Institute for Philosophy [&] Public Policy at George Mason University. „Geoengineering may someday have a role to play in climate policy, but it will never be more than a supporting role. The stars of the show will have to be emissions reductions and adaptation. Here’s why.“
„Geoengineering could technically take climate decisions away from all but the richest countries. Computer models show that stratospheric interventions to reduce sunlight and lower temperatures may benefit some temperate zones but negatively impact Latin America with important social and agricultural consequences.“
Call for Papers for SRM Conference 12.-14. March 2015
„The SRMS2015 committee invites authors to submit abstracts of up to 350 words for oral presentation within any of these four technical sessions.“
Cairns, Rose C. (2014): Will Solar Radiation Management enhance global security in a changing climate? (CGG Working Papers, 016).
„This discussion paper will examine the interlinkages between climate change, solar radiation management and notions of security, proceeding in three stages.“
Wong, Pak-Hang (2014): Distributive Justice, Geoengineering and Risks (CGG Working Papers, 017).
„In this paper, I argue that the discussions on distributive justice in geoengineering should not be outcome-based. Instead, it should be risk-based.“