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IASS to Convene “Critical Global Discussions” on Climate Engineering in 2014
Climate engineering (CE) technologies have emerged against a background of discontentment with the lack of progress on emission reductions. Although CE has at times been portrayed as a cheap and simple remedy for some of the problems of climate change, many critical voices also emphasize the far-reaching implications any large-scale implementation would have. With these conversations now expanding rapidly in international academic and policy circles, there is a window of opportunity for bringing together stakeholder communities from around the world to discuss – comprehensively and from the outset – the complex and interlinked issues of engineering our climate.
- to address comprehensively and in a balanced manner the technical, geophysical/geochemical, and social (political, ethical, economic, legal, cultural) contexts in which the idea of engineering the climate is being contemplated;
- to provide a forum to review the current state of the debate, present and discuss recent research results, and scope key research questions and challenges for academia and society, covering both solar radiation management (SRM) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies;
- to serve as a platform for exchange, networking, and collaboration across disciplines, sectors (particularly academia, policy and civil society), geographical regions, cultures, and generations; and
- to promote dialogue and transparency in the international debate on climate engineering.
We invite you to access more information about CEC14 at www.ce-conference.org, and to submit a proposal for convening a session targeting any of climate engineering’s many issues and stakeholder communities.
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