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Socio-Political Challenges and Concerns
Sunlight reflection methods could change the climate with wide-ranging environmental consequences, but they also raise profound socio-political challenges and concerns.
This includes how they might affect progress on other climate policies and how they might affect international relations.
This page explores some of the main challenges, including around governance and international law, attribution of the effects of SRM, and the risks of unilateral deployment.
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Mitigation Displacement: Could SRM Undermine Emissions Cuts?
A common objection to the study and potential development of sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), is that it could undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions – the root cause of global warming. How serious is this risk, and could it be prevented with smart policy?
By Pete Irvine, Tyler Felgenhauer, Mark Turner
Unilateral Deployment: Could a Single Country Change the Global Climate?
Given how inexpensive and powerful some sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), appear...
7 min read
Does International Law Prohibit SRM?
Because they would alter the climate and could cause harm, some people wonder whether sunlight reflection methods or solar ra...
5 min read
Could SRM Be Weaponised?
Sunlight reflection methods or solar radiation modification (SRM) could allow some control over the climate to limit the impa...
6 min read
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Unilateral Deployment: Could a Single Country Change the Global Climate?
Given how inexpensive and powerful some sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), appear...
7 min read
Will Scientists Know if SRM Caused Extreme Weather?
If sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), were deployed to lower temperatures, and ev...
5 min read
Mitigation Displacement: Could SRM Undermine Emissions Cuts?
A common objection to the study and potential development of sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modif...
5 min read
Does International Law Prohibit SRM?
Because they would alter the climate and could cause harm, some people wonder whether sunlight reflection methods or solar ra...
5 min read
Could SRM Be Weaponised?
Sunlight reflection methods or solar radiation modification (SRM) could allow some control over the climate to limit the impa...
6 min read
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Governance Recommendations for the For-profit SAI Startup “Stardust”
Janos Pasztor presents the governance recommendations he prepared for the for-profit startup “Stardust”, which is looking...
5 min read
The Importance of Transparent, Unbiased Communication on SRM
Whitney Peterson of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering highlights the critical role of transparency a...
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