Although solar geoengineering (alternatively 'solar radiation management'or 'solar radiation
modification') appears to offer a potentially effective, inexpensive and technologically …

Research into solar geoengineering, far from being societally neutral, is already highly
intertwined with its emerging politics. This review outlines ways in which research conditions …

Experiments in geoengineering–intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate to reduce
global warming–have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and …

Climate change is among the world's most important problems, and solutions based on
emission cuts or adapting to new climates remain elusive. One set of proposals receiving …

Patents constitute an important economic mechanism incentivising the development of
technologies. Given the immediacy of the need for global access to effective emission …

In the absence of a governance framework for climate engineering technologies such as
solar radiation management (SRM), the practices of scientific research and intellectual …

As academic and policy interest in climate geoengineering grows, the potential irreversibility
of technological developments in this domain has been raised as a pressing concern. The …

Sunlight reflection and carbon removal proposals for “climate engineering”(CE) confront
governance challenges that many emerging technologies face: their futures are uncertain …

Geoengineering as a technological intervention to avert the dangerous climate change has
been on the table at least since 2006. The global outreach of the technology exercised in a …

Solar geoengineering research in the social sciences and humanities has largely evolved in
parallel with research in the natural sciences. In this article, we review the current state of the …