63 scholars argue that solar geoengineering deployment cannot be fairly governed globally; it poses unacceptable risks & and its development threatens to delay & derail decarbonization policies.
Our website solargeoeng.org offers updated scientific information on various risks posed by speculative solar geoengineering technologies.
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Among other measures we call upon national funding agencies not to support the development of technologies for solar geoengineering, domestically and through international institutions.
We call upon governments to ban outdoor experiments of solar geoengineering technologies,
& we support the fight of the Saami people in Sweden against solar geoengineering experiments over their land.
We call upon governments to object to future institutionalization of planetary solar geoengineering as a policy option in international institutions,
including within assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
We look at five areas of achievement, called “MERIT”: Management, Education, Research, Impact, and Team Spirit. Note that Research is only one of the five. In promotion decisions, we look at each one of these criteria.
We accept and value that not everybody excels on each criterion: Some excel with groundbreaking research; others are engaged in societal debate as public intellectuals; others again make a great contribution as team players in larger groups or as teachers.