Call for Participation: Ocean Visions working groups to advance ocean-based carbon dioxide removal

Deadline: 21. August 2020 "We are looking for motivated individuals from diverse backgrounds to contribute to multi-stakeholder virtual working groups in Fall 2020. These working groups will be oriented around key ocean-based CDR pathways, as well as cross-cutting issues that affect all ocean-based CDR pathways. If you are interested in participating in one or more working groups, please sign up with the survey below by August 21." LINK

Lee, Walker; et al. (2020): Expanding the Design Space of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering to Include Precipitation-Based Objectives and Explore Trade-offs

Lee, Walker; MacMartin, Douglas; Visioni, Daniele; Kravitz, Ben (2020): Expanding the Design Space of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering to Include Precipitation-Based Objectives and Explore Trade-offs. In Earth Syst. Dynam. DOI: 10.5194/esd-2020-58. "In this study, we first introduce a new method of visualizing the design space in which desired climate outcomes are represented by 2-D surfaces on a 3-D graph." LINK

Janssens, M.; et al. (2020): A specialised delivery system for stratospheric sulphate aerosols: design and operation

Janssens, M.; Vries, I. E. de; Hulshoff, S. J. (2020): A specialised delivery system for stratospheric sulphate aerosols: design and operation. In Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-020-02740-3. "Yet, their technical design characteristics, financial cost of deployment, and emissions have yet to be studied in detail. Therefore, these topics are examined in this two- part study. This first part outlines a set of injection scenarios and proposes a detailed, feasible aircraft design. Part 2 considers the resulting financial cost and equivalent CO2 emissions spanned by the scenarios and aircraft. " LINK

Brochure SPP 1689

Climate engineering and our climate targets – a long-overdue debate

This publication was produced in 2019 as part of the public outreach work under the DFG Priority Programme, with only minor changes made for the English-language edition compared with the German edition. Its aim is to promote open social and political debate that is informed by the best available knowledge about the possibilities and risks of the various climate engineering ideas.

read excerpts from the brochure online here ...

PDF Download English

climateengineering_spp1689_english.pdf (7.0 MiB)

PDF Download Deutsch

climateengineering_spp1689_brosch.pdf (7.7 MiB)

SPP 1689 Workshop Report: SCENARIOS ON STRATOSPHERIC ALBEDO MODIFICATION DEPLOYMENT IN 2030

Link to online version.

SSP1689_Workshop Report_scenarios.pdf (6.4 MiB)

Modelling in Climate Engineering Research: Significance and Uncertainties

This brochure shall help to understand the functioning, limits and possibilities of modelling to help joining the discourse on CE. (Link to online-PDF)

Modelling in Climate Engineering Research (19.8 MiB)

Science and Responsibility

Leaflet with impressions from the analysis of the SPP 1689 within the sub-project SciPol (german).

Click here to go to the german e-paper »Wissenschaft und Verantwortung«

Faltblatt »Wissenschaft und Verantwortung« (german) (495.5 KiB)

Faltblatt Naturwissenschaftler antworten Journalisten

Einige Naturwissenschaftler aus dem Schwerpunktprogramm antworten hier professionellen WissenschaftsjournalistInnen vom „Nationalen Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation“ (Karlsruhe) auf konkrete Fragen zu ihrer Wissenschaft.

Click here to go to the german e-paper »Naturwissenschaftler antworten Journalisten«

Faltblatt Naturwissenschaftler antworten Journalisten (download) (600.4 KiB)