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Solar geoengineering: Growing scientific and political support for a non-use agreement
Global resistance to the development and potential use of solar geoengineering technologies is rapidly intensifying. In a striking recent...
23 sep 2025
Solar Geoengineering Governance: A Fragmented Institutional Landscape Covering Multi-Dimensional Impacts
A widely made claim in academic scholarship is that the governance of solar geoengineering is characterised by gaps in international law...
31 aug 2025
Three Pathways to Nonuse Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering
Recent years have seen increasing calls by a few scientists, largely from the Global North, to explore “solar geoengineering,” a set of...
16 dec 2024
Solar radiation modification: SAPEA evidence review report
Solar radiation modification is an exceedingly controversial topic in political debates, society at large, and, perhaps consequently, the...
9 dec 2024
A paradigm shift? African countries call for the non-use of solar geoengineering at UN Environment Assembly
The 6th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), held in February 2024 in Nairobi, will be remembered as one of the first intense...
6 mei 2024
Towards a Non-Use Regime on Solar Geoengineering: Lessons from International Law and Governance
In recent years, some scientists have called for research into and potential development of 'solar geoengineering' technologies as an...
27 feb 2024
Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future...
17 jan 2022
Anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering: conflicting visions of the future and their links to governance proposals
This article identifies diverse rationales to call for anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering, in light of a climate crisis. In...
12 aug 2020
Governing Climate Engineering: A Proposal for Immediate Governance of Solar Radiation Management
Solar radiation management (SRM) technologies would reflect a small amount of incoming solar radiation back into space before the...
19 jul 2019
De facto governance: how authoritative assessments construct climate engineering as an object of governance
Analyses of climate engineering (CE) governance have accelerated in the last decade. A key claim is that CE remains a largely ungoverned...
8 apr 2018
Evoking equity as a rationale for solar geoengineering research? Scrutinizing emerging expert visions of equity
This paper examines how notions of equity are being evoked by expert advocates of more research into solar geoengineering. We trace how...
18 sep 2017
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