Symposium Blog - CE-Project

Butnar, I., et al. (2019): A Deep Dive into the Modelling Assumptions for Biomass with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): A Transparency Exercise

Butnar, Isabela, Pei-Hao Li, Neil Strachan, Joana Portugal Pereira, Ajay Gambhir, and Peter Smith (2019): A Deep Dive into the Modelling Assumptions for Biomass with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): A Transparency Exercise. Environmental Research Letters, November. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5c3e. ‌"Through a structured review, we find that all IAMs communicate wider system assumptions and major cost assumptions transparently. This quality however fades as we dig deeper into modelling details." LINK

Jiang, J.; et al. (2019): Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering Could Alter the High Latitude Seasonal Cycle

Jiang, Jiu, Long Cao, Douglas G. MacMartin, Isla R. Simpson, Ben Kravitz, Wei Cheng, Daniele Visioni, Simone Tilmes, Jadwiga H. Richter, and Michael J. Mills (2019): Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering Could Alter the High Latitude Seasonal Cycle. Geophysical Research Letters, December. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl085758. "Here we use the Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble (GLENS) simulations to explore the effects of SAG on the seasonal cycle of climate change. Simulations show that relative to the present‐day climate, SAG diminishes the amplitude of the seasonal cycle of temperature at many high‐latitude locations, with warmer winters and cooler summers." LINK

Craik, N.; et al. (2019): Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement

Craik, Neil and William C.G. Burns (2019): Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement. In Environmental Law Reporter 49 (12), November 27, 2019. https://elr.info/news-analysis/49/11113/climate-engineering-under-paris-agreement. ‌"In light of the prominent, albeit contested, role that CE is likely to play in international climate policy, this Article analyzes the specific provisions of the Paris Agreement with a view to assessing the extent to which the Agreement can provide an institutional framework to effectively govern CE internationally, and how it may shape the development and implementation of CE options." LINK

13.07.2015 10:03

The Symposium on the Web

To broaden the discussions during the symposium, we announced the conference on Twitter and Facebook as well starting this blog. We had no idea what the response would be like. We established the hashtag #CERSYM2015 and tweets started arriving before the people did.

Day 3 - Are we comparing apples with apples? And who likes "them apples"?

The third and final full day of the symposium again included two sessions of talks. The first, entitled "A Comparative View of Climate Engineering Options and Metrics," was aimed at taking a good look at the concepts and terms we use to evaluate and assess different types of CE technologies to establish if researchers from different fields, countries and disciplines are assessing the technologies in a comparable way.

09.07.2015 08:14

Day 2 - Can we find out what we don't know about CE? And once we find out, who has the right and the means to make the big decisions?

The second day of the symposium included two separate sessions with seven presentations each. The first session of the day, entitled "Climate Engineering Uncertainties" aimed to help us understand exactly where the blind spots in our scientific and technical knowledge of CE lie, and to explore whether these uncertainties can be reduced.

07.07.2015 22:42

Day 1 - Could we?

This week's symposium aims to deal with a wide spectrum of Climate Engineering related questions, but today's session focused on what is arguably one of the most fundamental of them all: Could we do it? Entitled "Scientific Feasibility of Climate Engineering Ideas," the first session of the week included talks by seven natural scientists and engineers who addressed the "Could we?" question from different perspectives.

Welcome to the Climate Engineering Research Symposium!

Next week from Tuesday the 7^th to Friday the 10^th of July the Climate Engineering Research Symposium will be held in Berlin. We look forward to accompanying you as you participate in this exiting international event, which will not only welcome over 130 participants from thirteen countries around the world, but will also be open to the public on Thursday 9^th to encourage what we hope will be inclusive and productive discussions.

Butnar, I., et al. (2019): A Deep Dive into the Modelling Assumptions for Biomass with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): A Transparency Exercise

Jiang, J.; et al. (2019): Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering Could Alter the High Latitude Seasonal Cycle

Craik, N.; et al. (2019): Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement