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World Science Summit on Climate Engineering: Future Guiding Principles & Ethics Background: The inability of the global community to effectively limit or roll back greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continues to undermine the ability to minimize impacts of global climate change and has led to serious speculation about the need for engineering the climate. Climate engineering, just to mitigate against the temperature increases predicted by the mid to late part of the current century, opens our planet to many potentially hazardous and dangerous unknowns. In order to manage the risks and limit “larger scale” experiments with trans-boundary implications, we need to establish new and innovative perspectives on the development of global principles and ethics pertaining to climate engineering. Strong pleas are growing for governments to develop governance structures to oversee the emerging R&D activities involving climate modification at scale by individual scientists or countries. Objectives of the Summit: We will engage the global scientific community, including world class men and women scientists, to bring new and innovative perspectives to the development of global principles and ethics - encompassing the potential social, ecological, and economic effects on climate engineering. This forum is viewed as an important follow-on of the "Geoengineering the Climate" report of the Royal Society, the AsilomarInternational Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, and subsequent discussions of governance structures for engineering the climate. Expected Impact of the Summit: From your Summit participation and involvement, we will take the next critical step of defining what is and is not acceptable for scientists to pursue as members of the scientific community. We will create a set of guiding principles for climate engineering research. We will circulate these principles to the broad scientific community, for endorsement by their professional societies and associations. We aim to include the broadest cross-section of the scientific community to define the scope and scale of climate engineering research that can be reasonably pursued and why. We will identify the research that falls outside those boundaries, requiring world scale formal governance structus, strictures, and instruments to implement. Date: 2-3 December 2014 Venue: U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington DC Organizing Committee: Paul M. Bertsch (Chair) CSSP, CSIRO, Australia and University of Kentucky, USA Martin Apple (co-Chair) CSSP and University of California-Berkeley, USA John Geissman (co-Chair) CSSP and University of Texas-Dallas, USA Ellen Bergfeld ASA-CSSA-SSSA, USA Clifford Duke ESA, USA Rob Jackson Stanford University, USA Craig James CSIRO, Australia Carlos Nobre Brazilian National Space Research Institute, Brazil Lynn Russell University of California, San Diego, USA Mark Stafford-Smith CSIRO, Australia Ester Sztein National Academy of Sciences, USA Anya Waite Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany Diana H. Wall Colorado State University, USA Confirmed Participants: Thomas Lovejoy – Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, USA and Brazil Richard Alley – Professor, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA Martin Apple – President-Emeritus CSSP and Professor, University of California-Berkeley, USA Paulo Artaxo – Instituto de Física, University of São Paulo, Brazil David Morrow – Assistant Professor, University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA Simone Tilmes – National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA Rattan Lal – The Ohio State University, USA Hong Liao – Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC Robert W. Howarth – Cornell University, USA Inés Camilloni – University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Marcia K. McNutt – Editor-in-Chief, Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA Steve Rayner – Oxford University, UK Jane Long – University of California-Berkeley, USA Gene Takle – Iowa State University, USa Michael C. MacCracken – Climate Institute, USA Focus Areas: Earth sciences Atmospheric sciences Ecosystems and biodiversity Ocean sciences Meteorological sciences Agricultural sciences and food security Social science and governance Resource economics Human health implications Participation in the Summit: You may register by clicking the link below. Please note that registration is limited. If you have any questions, please contact the CSSP office ([email protected]) or Paul Bertsch ([email protected]) of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. The summit is endorsed by the International Council for Science. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. 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