[geo] Geoengineering Session at IAMAS meeting, 15 Aug - 1 Sept, 2017

[Phil Rasch]

Hi All,

Just a note to let you know that there will be a session on Geoengineering 
at the upcoming IAMAS meeting in Cape Town South Africa.

The meeting website is at
 http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/index.php/abstract-submission 


The Session is described at 
http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/index.php/2016-05-15-22-51-06/scientific-programme-2/iamas-sessions/82-m07-geoengineering

The session focuses on Radiation Management methods, especially those 
modifying the properties and coverage of clouds, the impact of 
stratospheric aerosol injection on clouds and precipitation, and other 
studies on stratospheric aerosol injection. Presentations on Carbon Dioxide 
Removal methods will also be considered. Climate Engineering is a 
controversial topic, and contributions on ethical and policy issues are 
also encouraged.

The deadline for Abstracts is 12 March, 2017. 

Regards

Phil Rasch and David Mitchell
Session Conveners





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[geo] Carnegie Council Announces Launch of Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)

[Andrew Lockley]

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/01/prweb14014618.htm

Monday, January 30, 2017
  


Carnegie Council Announces Launch of Carnegie Climate Geoengineering
Governance Initiative (C2G2)
The long-term objective of the Council's important new C2G2 Initiative is
to encourage policy dialogues on and to contribute to the development of
governance framework(s) for climate geoengineering, which is defined as
deliberate, intentional planetary-scale interventions in the Earth system
to counteract climate change.

(PRWEB) JANUARY 30, 2017

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

announces
the launch of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative
(C2G2), led by Executive Director Janos Pasztor. Most recently, Pasztor was
the United Nations assistant secretary-general for climate change under
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

This initiative comes at a very timely moment and addresses a critical gap
in the world's response to climate change. With 2016 the hottest year on
record, and 16 out of 17 of the hottest years in modern history occurring
this century, it is clear the risks of dangerous climate change are
accelerating. Scientists are exploring the possibility that climate
geoengineering might be needed, in addition to the mitigation efforts under
the 2015 Paris Agreement and elsewhere, to buy time or temporarily reduce
global temperatures. However, at present there is no comprehensive
international framework to govern these technologies, which have
planetary-wide consequences, pose many serious, unknown risks, and raise
profound ethical questions.

"There is a considerable lack of understanding of the governance
requirements for addressing climate geoengineering—technologies that
fundamentally require multilateral governance approaches," said Pasztor,
the executive director. "This is what the C2G2 Initiative plans to address."

According to Pasztor, "The highest priority remains for countries to pursue
their activities to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in line with the
Paris Agreement. Climate geoengineering is not a substitute for the
aggressive mitigation efforts needed at national and sub-national levels."

It is within this context that the C2G2 Initiative, supported by a generous
grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation
, will
operate. The long-term objective of the C2G2 Initiative is to encourage
policy dialogues on and to contribute to the development of governance
framework(s) for climate geoengineering, which is defined as deliberate,
intentional planetary-scale interventions in the Earth system to counteract
climate change.

The Initiative (http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/c2g2
)
will neither promote nor be necessarily against the potential use of
climate geoengineering, but will advocate for the development of governance
frameworks necessary for expanded research on such techniques, including
their environmental, social, and economic impacts, as well as for their
potential deployment.

The Initiative is engaging relevant stakeholders in intergovernmental and
international nongovernmental organizations, the research community, think
tanks, the private sector, as well as government officials to raise
awareness about the issues; to encourage policy dialogues; to develop
elements of the necessary governance frameworks; and ultimately to catalyze
intergovernmental action.

Executive Director Janos Pasztor

has
over 35 years of work experience in the areas of energy, environment,
climate change, and sustainable development, working in intergovernmental
as well as in nongovernmental organizations. In addition to serving as the
United Nations assistant secretary-general for climate change, he was the
director of the UN secretary-general's Climate Change Support Team from
2008-2010 and executive secretary of the UN secretary-general's High-level
Panel on Global Sustainability in 2011-12.

The public launch of C2G2 will take place on February 16 at 8:30am EST in
the Carnegie Council headquarters in New York City. The invitation-only
event will be live-streamed for the general public at
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/live

.

The event will include a panel discussion of the key issues in relation to
climate geoengineering, its governance, and what the C2G2 Initiative will
do. Panelists include: Professor Simon Nicholson, director, the Global
Environmental Politics program, American Univer

[geo] Climate Engineering News Review for Week 5 of 2017

[CE News]

Climate Engineering News Review for Week 5 of 2017


Upcoming Events

.

01.02.2017, Webinar: Restoring the Carbon Balance

.
 08.02.2017, Workshop:
Carbon Dioxide Removal/Negative Emissions Technologies (FCEA), Berkeley /
USA

.
 15.-16.06.2017, Workshop:
The Politics and Governance of Negative Emissions Technologies: Between the
Paris Agreement and the Anthropocene, Utrecht / The Netherlands

.  23.-28.07.2017,
Conference: Radiation Management Climate Engineering: Technology, Modeling,
Efficacy, and Risks (Gordon Research Conference), Sunday River Newry / USA

.  09.-12.10.2017, Conference: Climate
Engineering Conference 2017 (CEC17), Berlin / Germany

 

Calls and deadlines

.
 28.02.2017, Call for Papers: Organizing and the
Anthropocene, Special Issue of 'Organization'

.  28.02.2017, Call
for Session Proposals for the Climate Engineering Conference 2017: Critical
Global Discussions

.  17.03.2017, Call for Abstracts:
Studies of Volcanism

 

Jobs

. (
 no deadline) Job: Program Assistant, Carnegie Climate
Geoengineering Governance Initiative

 

New Publications

.Reynolds, Jesse L. (2017)
 : Book Review. Climate Justice and Geoengineering: Ethics and
Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene, edited by Christopher J. Preston

.Gannon, Kate Elizabeth (2015)
 : '40 Million Salmon Might Be
Wrong'. Ecological Worldviews and Geoengineering Technologies: The Case of
the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation

.de_Richter, Renaud; et al.
 (2017):
Removal of non-CO2 greenhouse gases by large-scale atmospheric solar
photocatalysis

.Oeste, Franz Dietrich; et al.
 (2017): Climate engineering by
mimicking natural dust climate control. The iron salt aerosol method

.Coffman, D
 'Maris; Lockley,
Andrew (2017): Carbon dioxide removal and the futures market

.Smit, Erika C. (2015) 
: Geoengineering. Issues of Accountability in International Law

 

Selected Media Responses

.Laboratory News
 : Accidental carbon capture a
real success

.Center For Carbon Removal
 : Leaders in Carbon Removal: Wil Burns

.GOXI Blog  : Carbon
Mining

.Aeon
 : Welcome to Terra Sapiens

.Mail
 & Guardian: Governments remain silent about bids to
geoengineer the climate

 

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