Solar Radiation Modification to Help Address Climate Change? Prospects, Risks, and Governance

Solar radiation modification (SRM), including technologies such as stratospheric aerosol injection, has moved from theoretical discussion toward serious scientific and policy debate. This and other SRM methods might be effective at slowing global warming or even cooling the Earth. At the same time SRM brings a range of climatic, biophysical, and societal risks. The possibility of SRM remains provocative, and the topic is in need of further research, public engagement, and governance development. This lunch panel panel brings together leading scholars in social science and global governance to engage with the scientific, social, ethical, and geopolitical dimensions of one of the most consequential climate governance questions of the coming decades.

Lunch is provided.

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Featuring

• Joshua Horton, Senior Consultant, International Policy and Research at the Climate Systems Engineering initiative at the University of Chicago, and Fellow with the Climate Hub
• Jessica Seddon, Senior Fellow and Director of the Deitz Initiative on Environment & Global Affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs and a co-founder of The Institutional Architecture Lab

Moderated by

• Jonathan Wiener, William R. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy; Co-Director of the Duke Center on Risk

With additional speakers

• Tyler Felgenhauer, Senior Research Scientist, and Research Director at the Duke Center on Risk
• Celina Scott-Buechler, Accenture Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
• Mark Borsuk, James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering; Co-Director of the Duke Center on Risk; Duke Provost Faculty Fellow

This event is co-sponsored by the Duke Center on Risk, the Duke Space Initiative, and the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI)