Solar geoengineering: History, methods, governance, prospects

EA Parson, DW Keith - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Solar geoengineering, also called sunlight reflection or solar radiation modification (SRM), is
a potential climate response that would cool the Earth's surface and reduce many other …

Toward an evidence‐informed, responsible, and inclusive debate on solar geoengineering: A response to the proposed non‐use agreement

EA Parson, HJ Buck, S Jinnah… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A prominent recent perspective article in this journal and accompanying open letter propose
a broad international “non‐use agreement”(NUA) on activities related to solar …

[HTML][HTML] The Future is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part Two

A Malm - Historical Materialism, 2023 - brill.com
As capitalist society remains incapable of addressing climate breakdown, one measure is
waiting in the wings: solar geoengineering. No other technology can cut global temperatures …

How may solar geoengineering impact global prospects for climate change mitigation?

K Ricke, A Harding - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As disruptions from climate change increase, so will the urgency to find shorter-term
approaches to ameliorating its harms. This may include calls to implement solar …

Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering

A Lockley, I Mundra, PT Smith - Futures, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) geoengineering could moderate anthropogenic
global warming. SRM could be privatised, eg using voluntary carbon offsets; alternatively …

[HTML][HTML] Solar geoengineering governance: Insights from a scenario exercise

EA Parson, JL Reynolds - Futures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper concludes the collection on an extended scenario exercise that examined
governance challenges and potential responses for solar geoengineering. It synthesizes the …

Can a Symbolic Mega-Unit of Radiative Forcing (RF) Improve Understanding and Assessment of Global Warming and of Mitigation Methods Using Albedo …

KD Lightburn - Climate, 2023 - mdpi.com
By expressing radiative forcing (RF) in a symbolic mega-unit we better communicate, to
governing organizations and the public, the extent of global warming (GW) and the potency …

[HTML][HTML] Two problems or one? Climate engineering and conceptual disaggregation

F Rabitz - Earth System Governance, 2024 - Elsevier
The term “climate engineering” is an ambiguous label for two categories of technologies for
mediating global warming, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation …

Solar radiation modification: SAPEA evidence review report

J Quaas, B Sovacool, R Cantoni, G Chiodo, O Corry… - 2024 - epubl.ktu.edu
Abstract [eng] In August 2023, the College of Commissioners asked the Group of Chief
Scientific Advisors to produce a Scientific Opinion on the complex issue of solar radiation …

Legitimacy and procedural justice: how might stratospheric aerosol injection function in the public interest?

M Grasso - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The success of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) in limiting global heating requires the
inclusion and maintenance of the political ideals of legitimacy and procedural justice …