Dear GEP colleagues, With more than 60 senior climate scientists and governance scholars from around the world, we have launched a global initiative<https://www.solargeoeng.org/> today calling for an International Non-use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering. We argue that planetary-scale solar geoengineering deployment cannot be governed fairly and poses unacceptable risks if included as a future climate policy option. We are also deeply concerned about the risks that solar geoengineering development may pose to climate policy and decarbonization commitments.
We are now calling on fellow academics, civil society organizations and concerned individuals to sign an open letter<https://www.solargeoeng.org/non-use-agreement/open-letter/> to governments, the United Nations and other actors to stop development and the potential use of planetary scale geoengineering technologies. This initiative draws on an article published in WIREs Climate Change<https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.754>, which is co-authored by the 16 initiators of this initiative. Co-authors include, besides myself, prof. Frank Biermann (Utrecht University, Dr. Jeroen Oomen, (Utrecht University), prof. Aarti Gupta (Wageningen University), prof. Saleem H. Ali (University of Delaware), prof. Ken Conca (American University), prof. Maarten A. Hajer (Utrecht University), prof. Prakash Kashwan (University of Connecticut), prof. Louis J. Kotzé (North-West University), prof. Melissa Leach (Institute of Development Studies), prof. Dirk Messner (German Environment Agency), prof. Chukwumerije Okereke (Alex-Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike), prof. Åsa Persson (Stockholm Environment Institute), prof. Janez Potocnik (International Resource Panel, United Nations Environment Programme), prof. David Schlosberg (Sydney Environment Institute), prof. Michelle Scobie (The University of the West Indies), prof. Stacy D. VanDeveer (University of Massachusetts Boston). First signatories include prof. Mike Hulme, prof. Sheila Jasanoff, prof. Stefan Rahmstorf, prof. Jennie C. Stephens, prof. Arturo Escobar, prof. Hiroshi Ohta, prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote, prof. Wolfgang Kramer, prof. Raymond Pierrehumbert, prof. Karen O’Brien, as well as the novelist Dr. Amitav Ghosh. We would be very grateful if you would support us by circulating this initiative widely within your networks. Additionally, we hope you will consider signing up as a Signatory on our website www.solargeoeng.org<about:blank>, and to encourage your academic colleagues to do the same. Finally, please also sign and share with your civil society networks, friends and family and all concerned citizens the change.org petition calling for an International Non-Use Agreement for Solar Geoengineering here: https://www.change.org/SolarGeoengNon-Use<about:blank> If you wish to contribute your time, please contact Carol Bardi (c.costadeso...@uu.nl<mailto:c.costadeso...@uu.nl>) You can follow the progress on this on initiative on twitter: @solargeoeng Thank you! --Stacy -- Stacy D. VanDeveer (he/him) Chair, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Global Governance Professor, Global Governance & Human Security McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies University of Massachusetts Boston www.global.umb.edu<http://www.global.umb.edu> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/2E478E44-DF0C-474E-B7C7-D06756F5F75C%40umb.edu.
