Why do actors oppose the development and potential future use of solar geoengineering technologies? This article maps and analyzes growing opposition to the development of planetary-scale solar geoengineering technologies among three actor groups—governments, civil society and academics. While much social science research on such technologies has addressed questions of feasibility, acceptance, legality, the desirability of more research or hypothetical governance designs, har

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), countries report on their climate actions through engaging in ever more elaborate transparency arrangements. There has been little analysis to date of whether and how developing countries, including Least Developed Countries, engage in these arrangements and how such engagement relates to domestic decision-making. In this article, we examine factors that hinder versus enable engagement in UNFCCC transpa

The disruptions to the earth’s system have reached an unprecedented scale, posing enormous challenges around the globe. The world has...

Global resistance to the development and potential use of solar geoengineering technologies is rapidly intensifying. In a striking recent...

A widely made claim in academic scholarship is that the governance of solar geoengineering is characterised by gaps in international law...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) increasingly relies on elaborate transparency arrangements – in the...

Transparency is often extolled as the key means to secure accountability in the global climate regime. In practice, when transparency...

Since net zero greenhouse gas emissions targets have become a keystone of climate policy, there has been increasing debate about the need...

The launch of the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF) in 2024 has been heralded with much fanfare. At the latest...