https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901125000218
*Authors* Livia Fritz, Lucilla Losi, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low, Benjamin K. Sovacool *25 January 2025* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104005 *Highlights* •Data from 22 countries show high trust in experts for climate intervention governance. •Transparency, independent funding, objectivity, and integrity are key to trustworthiness. •Publics see experts as communicators, advisors, and decision-makers. •Preference for expert authority mirrors distrust in political elites in some countries. •Diverse knowledges need to be better integrated in climate intervention governance. *Abstract* Novel technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and proposals around solar radiation modification, known also as solar geoengineering, display key features of complex problems. These climate intervention technologies are characterized by high uncertainties, value disputes, high stakes and urgency. Such features create wicked conundrums in climate governance. Addressing questions around more effective governance of these technologies necessitates reflections on how different kinds of expertise, normative judgments and democratic decision-making (should) interact. Based on a survey (N = 22,222) and 44 focus groups (N = 323) in 22 countries, we show (i) who publics see as an expert in the field of climate intervention technologies, (ii) what roles they envision for experts in governing climate intervention technologies and (iii) how trust and distrust in scientists unfolds in the context of these novel, partly controversial, technologies. Our findings contribute to the debate regarding public preferences for experts and expertise in decision-making on complex and potentially contested issues. They offer insights for experts in the field on how to communicate and engage in public debate and policymaking as well as on which drivers of public dis-/trust to attend. *Source: ScienceDirect* -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAHJsh9_yqN4xuUznZHJ5F3VSZakNJOkiLyvXE_z%3Dgy_S-AqYGg%40mail.gmail.com.
