Dear All, This brief correspondence appears in this weeks Nature Correspondence:
India forges ahead with solar-geoengineering studies Govindasamy Bala and Akhilesh Gupta India has been contributing to the evaluation, discussion and implementation of solar-geoengineering research for almost a decade, in line with the call by A. Atiq Rahman and colleagues for developing countries to take the lead in this realm (see *Nature* 556, 22–24; 2018 <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03917-8>). The Indian government’s Department of Science and Technology launched a major research initiative in 2017 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore to understand the implications of solar geoengineering on developing countries. The first annual meeting of experts and policymakers to discuss how this research could be done in India was held in 2017. The department has also funded a geoengineering climate-modelling research programme over the past five years. This has revealed, for example, how solar geoengineering could affect the global water cycle and extreme events and cyclones in the Bay of Bengal (see G. Bala and B. Nag *Clim. Dyn.* *39*, 1527–1542; 2012 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1256-1>; and A. Nalam *et al. Clim. Dyn. **50*, 3375–3395; 2018 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3810-y>). Furthermore, New Delhi’s Council on Energy, Environment and Water has held three international conferences since 2011 to identify India’s role in developing regional and global governance of solar-geoengineering research and technologies. Nature *557*, 637 (2018) doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05288-6 -- With Best Wishes, ------------------------------------------------------------------- G. Bala Professor Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 India Tel: +91 80 2293 3428; +91 80 2293 2505 Fax: +91 80 2360 0865; +91 80 2293 3425 Email: gb...@caos.iisc.ernet.in; bala....@gmail.com Web:http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/gbala/gbala.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
