---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andy Parker <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020, 12:24 Subject: Fwd: SRMGI Year-End Newsletter To: Andrew Lockley <[email protected]>
Hi there, In case it’s of interest, I’m forwarding to you the SRMGI end-of-year newsletter that went out last month. GDPR rules mean you will need to specifically sign up to continue receiving our newsletters, which will be sent out every quarter from now on. You can sign up here https://mailchi.mp/78e782a7d7a6/srmgi-newsletter-sign-up Andy ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andy Parker <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 18:13 Subject: SRMGI Year-End Newsletter To: CC <[email protected]> SRMGI Year-End Newsletter View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/cd43abed46a4/srmgi-year-end-newsletter?e=7494aa626d> *SRMGI Year-End Newsletter* *December 2019* Dear Andy, As we approach the end of the year, I’m reporting back on the SRM Governance Initiative’s accomplishments from 2019 and looking ahead to 2020. SRMGI’s mission is to build developing country capacity to evaluate solar radiation management geoengineering (SRM) and play a central role in any international discussions. In 2019 we have made good progress on our three core activities: 1. Running SRM engagement workshops in developing countries 2. Supporting SRM research in the Global South through our DECIMALS Fund grants 3. Additional activities to build international networks and Southern capacity *2019 Workshops* Engagement workshops have been SRMGI’s main activity over the last eight years. They are a first step towards capacity building as they encourage the local climate community to thinking about the potential risks and benefits of SRM and to share their ideas for how developing countries should engage with the issue. After a hiatus in 2018 to set up DECIMALS, we were back on the road in 2019. *Benin* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=e51a595762&e=7494aa626d> In August we partnered on a workshop in Cotonou, Benin, our very first event held entirely in French. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=5290a08305&e=7494aa626d> *Ivory Coast* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=ca73783f69&e=7494aa626d> In September we partnered on a workshop in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, our very second event held entirely in French. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=0ac6ff15b8&e=7494aa626d> *Russia* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=233e02704f&e=7494aa626d> Although Russia is not a developing country, it has not been well represented in SRM discussions, despite being an early research leader. In November we partnered with the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology to run a workshop in Moscow. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=10d2dc057e&e=7494aa626d> *Argentina* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=4a8b8afad1&e=7494aa626d> SRMGI worked with the Argentine DECIMALS research team to hold a workshop in Buenos Aires, our second event in South America and our first event held in Spanish. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=30a1f1e158&e=7494aa626d> *South East Asia regional workshop* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=a9f0b9dcb4&e=7494aa626d> Dr Laurence Delina approached SRMGI with a proposal for an event to kick-start consideration of South East Asian responses to the challenges of solar and carbon geoengineering. Laurence is a Filipino academic who works on sustainable transitions and rapid mitigation, and SRMGI was pleased to partner on his event, held in Bali in November. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=3da373e6bf&e=7494aa626d> *The DECIMALS Fund* DECIMALS is the world’s first international SRM modelling fund and the first aimed exclusively at researchers in developing countries. In late 2018 we announced the first eight projects to receive DECIMALS funding: in Argentina, Jamaica, South Africa, Benin, Ivory Coast, Iran, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. You can read about the research teams and their studies here <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=425f5056e6&e=7494aa626d> . *First papers submitted* The first two DECIMALS papers have been submitted to journals and are under review: from the Iran team, a study of how SRM might affect dust storms across the Middle East/ North Africa region; and from the South African team, exploring how SRM might affect extremes of temperatures and precipitation across Africa. All eight projects will publish their research findings in 2020. *Building international connections* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=24dd5acf77&e=7494aa626d> Our research collaboration system is connecting scientists in Global North and South. A group of leading SRM modelling experts have volunteered their time to work with the DECIMALS teams, teaching about SRM, learning about climate impact modelling, and expanding international networks. Learn more about the research collaborators here <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=e39b8245b7&e=7494aa626d> . The DECIMALS teams themselves have also be been busy presenting their work and building networks around the world – see below for details. Representatives from each of the eight DECIMALS teams as well as their research collaborators at the DECIMALS Kick-Off Workshop in Trieste, Italy (November 2018). *Additional activities and news * In addition to our workshops and DECIMALS fund, SRMGI supports activities that serve our mission of building Southern capacity and building global networks. *A busy and successful 2019* *Intelligence Squared debate on SRM* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=0658c7b1e2&e=7494aa626d> Anjali Viswamohanan, a Chevening scholar at Oxford University, appeared in a high profile ‘Intelligence Squared’ debate on solar geoengineering. Accompanying Clive Hamilton, she spoke for the motion “Solar Radiation Management Is a Crazy Idea”, facing off against Ted Parson of UCLA and David Keith of Harvard. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=705e2f7a3f&e=7494aa626d> *DECIMALS spin-off project: Using WRF for more powerful regional SRM simulations* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=62f405d2d8&e=7494aa626d> In the first major scientific spin-off from the DECIMALS Fund, Dr Chris Lennard (co-PI South Africa) spent a week at NCAR in Colorado, working with Dr Simone Tilmes (DECIMALS collaborator) to write code that will allow the powerful Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) to simulate the regional impacts of SRM. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=eaa65d9419&e=7494aa626d> *BNU summer school* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=0d1e041439&e=7494aa626d> In August, Beijing Normal University held a week-long summer school on SRM impacts in the developing world. Thirteen DECIMALS scientists attended, representing seven of the eight projects. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=bb32db34c6&e=7494aa626d> *Supporting the Banff summer school* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=b18fca3308&e=7494aa626d> SRMGI provided financial support to the Sixth International Geoengineering Governance Summer School, helping ensure good representation from developing country participants. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=838a4dde0f&e=7494aa626d> *Harvard research residencies* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=e4391dde72&e=7494aa626d> In September, four DECIMALS researchers – from Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin and Indonesia – attended a special short-term research residency at the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=8c010a2074&e=7494aa626d> *Dr Leonardo Clarke presents Jamaican SRM research to the CORDEX conference* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=8ba90a2b06&e=7494aa626d> In October, Dr Leonardo Clarke presented the Jamaica DECIMALS project research at a conference of the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) initiative in Beijing. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=45bb18edac&e=7494aa626d> *DECIMALS at the AGU* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=316216dacd&e=7494aa626d> In mid-December, Dr Izidine Pinto gave a talk at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Izidine is climate modeller from Mozambique who is on the South Africa DECIMALS team, and his presentation covered the potential SRM impacts on extremes of temperatures and precipitation across Africa. Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=34d00e1233&e=7494aa626d> *First African Master’s thesis on SRM* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=1f16c06904&e=7494aa626d> Last week Ricardo Kouakou, a student at the University of Felix Houphouet-Boigny and one of the Ivory Coast DECIMALS researchers, successfully defended his thesis on SRM. It explored how SRM might affect extreme temperatures in West Africa and, as far as we know, is the first Master’s thesis on SRM in Africa. Félicitations Ricardo! Read more <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=e0ea8287ec&e=7494aa626d> *And coming up in 2020* Next year is already looking busy! All eight DECIMALS projects will report their research findings in peer-reviewed academic papers, and we already have plans to run engagement workshops in Barbados, Bangladesh, Indonesia and South Africa, plus another SRMGI Global Forum in Berlin. *Gordon Research Conference* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=3876cec8e1&e=7494aa626d> Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) are prestigious international conferences focused on issues of cutting-edge science. In 2020 two DECIMALS scientists are taking part in a session on developing world impacts of SRM at a Gordon Conference on solar geoengineering. The session will be led by Prof Michael Taylor, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus) and co-PI of the Jamaica DECIMALS project. Prof Ines Camilloni, a climatologist at the University of Buenos Aires and PI of the Argentine DECIMALS project, will be one of the speakers. More information here <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=3100bfdaeb&e=7494aa626d> . *Climate Engineering in Context 2020: 6-9 October, Berlin* <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=db00b61df6&e=7494aa626d> The world largest climate engineering conference – Climate Engineering in Context 2020 – returns for its third instalment in Berlin, from 6-9 October. Following the successes of CEC14 and CEC17, CEC20 will bring back together the world’s leading SRM and carbon geoengineering experts for three days of critical transdisciplinary discussions. SRMGI will help ensure there is a strong developing country presence at the event by hosting our second Global Forum in concert with CEC – see below for more details. And we are pleased that there will be developing country representation on the steering group for CEC as Dr Feisal Rahman, who came into SRM research through the Bangladesh DECIMALS project, is serving on the committee. More information here <https://srmgi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ec4191d31f894c0e3eab90bb&id=2708c73488&e=7494aa626d> . *SRMGI Global Forum: 5-6 October, Berlin* The biggest SRMGI event on the horizon is the second Global Forum. Building on the successful first SRMGI Global Forum in 2017, SRMGI will once again bring 40-50 people from the Global South to Berlin. They will have 1.5 days to work together and discuss how developing countries should engage with the topic of SRM, then they will all attend CEC20 to make sure the Global South has a voice in every part of the conference. 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