Biniaz, Susan; Bodansky, Daniel (2020): Solar Climate Intervention. Options for International Assessment and Decision-Making. Center for Climate and Energy Solutions & SilverLining. "This paper posits a scenario in which a group of countries seeks a cooperative, science-based1 approach to decision-making regarding the potential use of SCI, in the context of increasingly dangerous climate conditions, taking into account “two safeties:” the safety of the global climate, and the safety of SCI, if any, in response." LINK
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Florin, Marie-Valentine; Rouse, Paul; Hubert, Anna-Maria; Honegger, Matthias; Reynolds, Jesse (2020): lnternational governance issues on climate engineering Information for policymakers. EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC). Lausanne. "Driven by questions and needs from the international policymaking community to better understand the potential benefits as well as opportunities, risks, uncertainties and other challenges of CDR and SRM, at both technical and governance levels, this report reviews and compares technologies and their potential contributions, costs, risks, uncertainties, before surveying the current legal and institutional landscape of governance regarding climate engineering." LINK
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"In a study for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment EPFL’s International Risk Governance Center (IRGC) has brought together a group of global experts to point the way forward for international policymakers grappling with the risks and benefits posed by Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Modification." LINK
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"The Benin team’s first paper was published in June in Earth’s Future, and it explores how SRM could affect the West African summer monsoon. We recently had a chance to discuss the paper with Casimir, and to learn more about the pathways that brought him from rural Benin to leading the world’s first LDC study on SRM." LINK
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"In June, the Iran DECIMALS team led by Dr Khalil Karami published its first SRM research paper. We talked with Khalil about the study and his path to leading the region’s first SRM research team." LINK
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