About Us
SRM360 is a non-profit knowledge broker dedicated to informing people about solar geoengineering so they can contribute to critical decisions about its research, development, and governance.
SRM Guide
Why Are People Considering SRM?
Solar geoengineering – also known as sunlight reflection methods or solar radiation modification (SRM) – is a set of ideas to reflect a small fraction of incoming sunlight to cool the planet.
SRM is not a solution to climate change, but it might help to reduce some of its devastating impacts while the essential work of decarbonisation accelerates. It would also introduce new risks and new uncertainties – and much more work is needed to understand them.
The world faces critical decisions about SRM today – around its research, development, policy, and governance. These will require collaboration across many groups, in many places. Civil society, policymakers, media, think tanks, entrepreneurs, and funders all have a role to play, but many do not have the knowledge or tools they need to engage.
SRM360 works with experts around the world to create content that helps people get informed and take part in society-wide discussions – in time to make a difference.
Our vision
SRM360 works for a world where people have the best information available to engage with and take part in wise decisions about sunlight reflection methods, as part of urgent efforts to reduce the harms of climate change.
- Where researchers inform the world about how the risks of SRM compare to the risks of a warming world;
- Where groups across society come together to develop effective governance and cooperate to guide research and manage risks;
- Where, one day, the world can either responsibly reject SRM or develop and deploy it wisely alongside other climate policies.
Our mission
SRM360 aims to provide people around the world with the information they need to engage in decisions about sunlight reflection methods.
- SRM360 bridges the gap between experts and wider society, making sense of what is known and unknown about SRM;
- SRM360 produces accessible content and original analyses that can be shared and reused widely;
- SRM360 reaches out to people around the world, to ensure the broadest possible understanding of this rapidly developing field.
Our position
SRM360 takes no position on whether SRM should be used. But we believe that this idea cannot be ignored and that the world should be moving towards making informed decisions about it. That means we advocate for further research and assessment so that the risks of SRM can be weighed against the risks of climate change.
Our goal is to provide audiences across society with the information they need to contribute to an informed discussion on SRM and to reach their own conclusions about it.
Learn more about how we achieve this mission on our How We Work page.