https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/a-briefing-and-discussion-on-solar-geoengineering-science-ethics-and-governance
*Selected slides are included in the transcript. For a PDF of the full powerpoint of 81 slides, click here <https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/a-briefing-and-discussion-on-solar-geoengineering-science-ethics-and-governance/_res/id=Attachments/index=0/C2G2_20170516%20Presentations_Master.pdf>.* *JANOS PASZTOR:* Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, colleagues, in whatever time zone you are in. Welcome to the webinar discussion on Solar Geoengineering: Science, Ethics, and Governance. [Slide 01] My name is Janos Pasztor, and I will be your co-host together with Simon Nicholson, who is also on the screen, and he will say a few words in a moment. Thank you all very much for joining us for this webinar. We have actually 75 people registered, not all of whom are connected yet. We will see how well they are able to connect. We have a pretty exciting program for the next two-and-a-half hours. I will not go into the details; I presume you have seen them on the web, and you have in front of you the agenda. Just a few words about why we are having this webinar: On our side, the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2) is committed to exploring governance of climate geoengineering in an impartial manner. We are going to be exploring governance challenges and options. Part of all of that is, of course, having dialogues about the subject like the one we're going to have today. In addition to that, we also have had a number of discussions with colleagues in different institutions about these governance issues, and it was felt that, instead of simply doing many one-to-one discussions, it would be useful to do a webinar where a number of different people could connect at the same time. So that is one of the reasons why we went ahead with the webinar. There are also a number of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations we have been in touch with that are either considering what to do in relation to governance of climate engineering or increasing their existing work, but they also welcome the idea of doing something like that. There are also other interesting developments, such as, of course, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is preparing for a special report on 1.5 °C. It is also preparing for the Sixth Assessment Report, and it is useful for them to have this kind of discussion. Finally, another interesting development is that some are going ahead and shifting from in-laboratory to *in-situ* experiments, and there again some issues arise that make it useful to have this kind of a discussion. Our webinar is going to be in two parts because, even though we wanted to focus on the governance, we need to look at the science basis to make sure we are all on the same page, so we'll start with that. That part will be co-hosted and facilitated by Simon. In the second part we'll look at the issues of ethics, intergenerational issues, and governance, which I will then facilitate on behalf of the C2G2. We have a list of really excellent panelists. They have published widely on these issues, and they will continue to publish in the future on these issues, so we hope that they will be able to help everybody with some useful information. With that, I would just like to pass the mic over to Simon, who will say a few words, and then get us going. Thank you. - - - - - - [image: US English]ENG <https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/a-briefing-and-discussion-on-solar-geoengineering-science-ethics-and-governance> Advanced <https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/advanced-search> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
