Dear Alexander,
These are interesting lists. There are a couple more grants that could
be added to your list:
1. NSF Climate Dynamics, ATM-0730452, "Collaborative Research in
Evaluation of Suggestions to Geoengineer the Climate System Using
Stratospheric Aerosols and Sun Shading," February 1, 2008 -- January 31,
2013, $622,275, completed.
2. Accompanying grant to UCLA, with Rich Turco as PI, for a smaller
amount, completed.
3. Norwegian EXPECT project 229760, Exploring the Potential and Side
Effects of Climate Engineering, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, PI, along with a
number of others. Just now starting, 7,000,000 NOK = US $1,170,000.
Alan Robock
Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor
Editor, Reviews of Geophysics
Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program
Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-848-932-5751
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On 10/4/2013 12:39 PM, Alexander Berger wrote:
Hi all,
I work for GiveWell <http://www.givewell.org/>, a nonprofit that does
research to help donors decide where to give, and we're in the early
stages of considering recommending funding for geoengineering
research. One question we're interested in as we think about that is
how much funding is already directed to geoengineering research.
Andy Parker and David Keith have put together a helpful list of
publicly funded solar geoengineering research projects around the
world, including funding information:
http://environment.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/srm_projects_around_the_world.pdf (linked
from here <http://environment.harvard.edu/geoengineering>).
In the interest of trying to get an estimate of the total global
annual funding for solar geoengineering research, I've added a few
projects (mostly US- and philanthropically-funded) to their list,
added timing info where I could find it, and uploaded it to Google
Docs here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhzKnm3ez8kJdElmRmE3aFN4bTMtYl9lamo3SDlyM1E&usp=sharing
My total estimate comes out to around $10 million/year. Key
(uncertain) assumptions include:
* Continued support from Bill Gates for FICER
<http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/FICER.html> at ~$1.5 million/year
* 50% of SCRiM' <http://scrimhub.org/>s main NSF grant is devoted to
geoengineering research. The grant is mentioned as a source of
support for GeoMIP
<http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/GeoMIP/support.html> but the
50% figure is pulled out of nowhere.
Programs I know of but don't have any funding info for include:
* Finland's COOL
<http://www.uef.fi/en/oikeustieteet/aerosol_intervention>
* IASS' Investigation and Assessment of Geo-Engineering Approaches
which influence the Composition of the Atmosphere
<http://www.iass-potsdam.de/de/forschungscluster/nachhaltige-interaktionen-mit-der-atmosphaere/climate-engineering/investigation>
* Exeter's G360 <http://www.exeter.ac.uk/g360/>
*I've made *the spreadsheet
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhzKnm3ez8kJdElmRmE3aFN4bTMtYl9lamo3SDlyM1E&usp=drive_web#gid=0>* publicly
editable, and I welcome any additions or corrections, *particularly
with respect to the above uncertainties. If you add information, some
note about the source would be much appreciated (e.g. "I, Jane Smith,
work for the program" or "here's the website with the info").
The additions I made--and, I believe, the underlying list compiled by
Andy and David--aimed to include projects that have an SRM component
(at least), and are explicitly framed as geoengineering. Including
projects that are only "relevant" to SRM or that focus exclusively on
CDR, as the GAO's 2010 report
<http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10903.pdf> did, would lead to
significantly larger funding estimates. However, it's not the case
that 100% of the included funding is going towards SRM research; many
of the included projects also have CDR components.
Thanks,
Alexander
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