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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
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