Hi, I believe SCRIM is focused on sustainably managing climate risks and will only touch on geoengineering. I don't know all the details but under 10% would be a better guess than 50%.
The IASS has a group that I work for on geoengineering which includes ~ 10 full time post-docs / research fellows, ~ 4 research assistants / masters students. I'm not sure how much we cost though. cheers, Pete On Friday, 4 October 2013 18:39:55 UTC+2, 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 > > -- > Alexander Berger > www.GiveWell.org > -- 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.
