SAM webinar - Solar radiation modification: What should Europe’s strategy be?

Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) covers a range of technologies that have the potential to cool the Earth’s climate. SRM is therefore the subject of intense and controversial debate around whether it might provide a means to tackle global warming and the devastating impacts of climate change.
Following the Scientific Advice Mechanism’s newly published report on Solar radiation modification, we are holding a series of webinars considering the issues around SRM, in collaboration with the Scientific Advice Mechanism.
In the first webinar of the series, we focused on strategy and policy, exploring SRM technologies, their purposes, potential deployment, associated risks and consequences, stakeholder attitudes and interests (including the public, business, and politicians), and the strategy and policy Europe should adopt regarding SRM research and potential deployment.
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Professor Nebojša Nakićenović MAE, Deputy Chair, Group of Chief Scientific Advisors
Professor Eric Lambin MAE, Group of Chief Scientific Advisors
Professor Nils-Eric Sahlin MAE, Deputy Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and Technologies
Dušan Chrenek, Principal Adviser, Directorate-General for Climate Action, European Commission
Professor Johannes Quaas, Professor of Theoretical Meteorology, Leipzig University; Co-Chair of the SAPEA Working Group shared the activities of the working group.
Professor Benjamin Sovacool MAE, Director of Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston University; Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex; Co-Chair of the SAPEA Working Group
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