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Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 15:00 - 16:30 Contested Remedies: Geo-Engineering Proposals and Climate Change Jim Falk Professorial Fellow, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne Affiliate, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute Visiting Professor, United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies Emeritus Professor, University of Wollongong Venue: Meeting Room 1, UNU-IAS Pacifico-Yokohama, 1-1-1 Minato MiraiNishi-ku, Yokohama Event Description Event language: English There is an ever more striking gap between what we, as a species, need to achieve to avoid a wide spectrum of destructive impacts of climate change, and the effectiveness of the governance measures that we have put in place in order to avoid such impacts. Reflecting an increasingly urgent understanding of this gap, there have been a wide range of proposals about what should now be done. Amongst those is an emerging literature concerning the possibility of instituting technical measures at planetary scale to reduce the impacts of increasing anthropogenic atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. These measures are often collectively referred to as "geoengineering" (or more recently "climate engineering"). The literature is growing very rapidly and at an accelerating rate. The possibilities are already being canvassed at the level of major government and commercial agencies. There are a large number of research projects underway, there have been relevant patents taken out, and momentum is building for test deployments. A great deal is at stake. This seminar will outline some of these developments and a range of technical, political, ethical, economic and policy issues that they raise for science, government, market organizations and civil society. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
