Aaja Larsen, MP, Parliament of Denmark, Chair of the Standing Commitee, and John Moore, Research Professor, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, will present "Indigenous Peoples and Solar Geoengineering."
This event will be held both virtually and in person. To attend virtually, register via Zoom. To attend in person, email...
Oliver Morton, Environmental Editor, The Economist, and Pete Worden, Executive Director, Breakthrough Starshot, will present "Space-Based Solar Geoengineering and Astropolitics."
This event will be held both virtually and in person. Please stay tuned for the registration link.
Elizabeth Chalecki, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Omaha, and Stewart Patrick, James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program, Council on Global...
Kelly Wanser, Executive Director, SilverLining; Steve Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund; and Joe Aldy, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, HKS will present "Solar Geoengineering and US Politics."
This event will be held both virtually and in person. For those planning to attend virtually, please register in advance.
Frank Keutsch, Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard and Louise Bedsworth, Director, Land Use Program, Berkeley Law, UCLA and Chair of SCoPEx Advisory Committee, will discuss current governance arrangements for SCoPEx, experiences and lessons learned since the project was first announced, and broader questions related to research governance and social license.
The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment, or SCoPEx, is a small-scale outdoor experiment...
Join us to hear from John Deutch, Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT's Department of Chemistry, and former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence (1995-1996). Professor Deutch will discuss "Four Strategies to Address Climate Change and Reduce Damage: A Conceptual Model...
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 440
"A solar geoengineering and global income inequality paradox"
Exploring heterogeneity in the economic impacts of solar geoengineering is a fundamental step towards understanding the risk tradeoff associated with a geoengineering option. To evaluate the impacts of solar geoengineering and greenhouse gas-driven climate change on equal terms, we apply macroeconomic impact models that have been widely applied to climate change impacts assessment. Consistent reduction in inter-country inequality can inform discussions of the distribution of impacts of solar geoengineering, a topic...
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 429
The event will start off with a brief introduction to the Geoengineering Modeling Research Consortium (GMRC), and then launch into a panel discussion which will address the bigger picture of solar geoengineering research, including both technical and political risks associated...
Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
"Linking Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement Policies: Strategically Resolving an International Climate Policy Dilemma"
Solar geoengineering may be able to significantly reduce climate-change risks, but raises sharp controversy. The leading cause of controversy is the concern that its research, development, or use might inappropriately displace efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A possible response would be to strategically link the international policies of abatement and solar geoengineering. I expand on this idea, including by disaggregating states based on...
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 440
"Cirrus seeding: Understanding the complicated little sister of stratospheric geoengineering"
Climate engineering is a potential means to offset the climate warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. The most prominent and best researched climate engineering approach to alter Earth’s radiation balance is the injection of atmospheric aerosol particles or their precursor gases into the stratosphere, where these particles reflect solar radiation back to space. Climate engineering through cirrus cloud thinning, in contrast,...
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 429
"Humor & Geoengineering"
Humor, like geoengineering, is about the clash between what is and what could be. In this unconventional, interactive session, researcher-turned-humanitarian Pablo Suarez and illustrious cartoonist Bob Mankoff will engage participants in exploring how the power of intelligent humor can be harnessed to support learning and dialogue about difficult issues. Focusing on climate risks and the prospects of geoengineering, we will share an experience of how humor works, how it can be used and misused, and what it can do to enable fruitful discussions...
The EPS Faculty Lounge (Hoffman Lab 409), 20 Oxford St
On February 7th, Kerryn Brent and Jeff McGee from the University of Tasmania will give a talk titled, “Is International Law Ready for Marine Geoengineering?” followed by a Q&A and discussion.
Summary: The world’s oceans are a key site for site CDR and SRM proposals. There is a large body of international law that governs human activities in the world’s oceans. We find the capacity of these rules to govern marine geoengineering is limited in three ways. First, states have different rights and obligations concerning marine geoengineering depending on whether it...
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 429
Forrest Clingerman, Ohio Northern University, will moderate a discussion with Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge, and Mark Lawrence, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam Lunch provided RSVP: acchang [at] seas.harvard.edu
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 429
"Fast and slow climate system responses to solar geoengineering"
Factors that affect the radiative forcing of climate rapidly alter the atmosphere before substantial change in ocean temperatures occur (fast climate response). Later, the climate system responds to changes in ocean temperature (slow climate response). Numerical simulations indicate that the fast climate response can differ markedly across radiative forcing agents but their slow responses are similar. Solar geoengineering largely 'works' because solar geoengineering is good at offsetting the slow climate response...
