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Please note this session is from 12:00-1:00PM U.S. Eastern Time.Solar geoengineering, or solar radiation modification, is a set of strategies to limit the warming effects of the Sun to counteract human-caused climate change. While some say the technology has the potential to reduce global temperatures, others view the physical manipulation of the atmosphere as too risky to consider. If these theoretical technologies are developed enough to be deployed, they have the potential to either gravely impact the most vulnerable, who contributed least to the climate crisis; or, to help reduce future disastrous effects of global heating.
In this panel at the 2023 United Nations General Assembly’s Science Summit, scientists and policy experts reflecting different contexts in rich, middle-income, and developing countries, will have an open discussion about the current state of research and tests on these technologies. The panel will highlight how the current vacuum in collective deliberation and decision-making processes means that the scientifically and politically controversial strategies of solar radiation modification are developing largely ungoverned. The panelists will consider how different actors should contribute to fair, just, and well-considered processes with broad participation and collective deliberation at the global level.
PANELISTS:
- Kate Marvel, Senior Scientist, Climate, Project Drawdown
- Patrycja Sasnal, Visiting Professor, UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability
- Michael Taylor, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of the West Indies
MODERATOR:
- Nicholas B. Dirks, President & CEO, New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
