TEST PAGE RESOURCES
Overview
There are a variety of different resources across the DSG website. This page lists external websites, reports, and papers that are of interest across a range of different sectors that we will update periodically. Take a look at our key concepts and definitions page for some high level explanations, the publications page for DSG white papers on a range of topics, and learning materials for the capacity building materials that DSG is building with its partners.
External Resources
Solar geoengineering & governance resources
Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Government. 2023. Congressionally Mandated Research Plan and an Initial Research Governance Framework Related to Solar Radiation Management
Congress required the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a research plan for “solar and other rapid climate interventions” as well as a “research governance framework to provide guidance on transparency, engagement, and risk management for publicly funded work in solar geoengineering research.”
United Nations Environment Programme. 2023. One Atmosphere: An Independent Expert Review on Solar Radiation Modification Research and Deployment.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) convened an expert panel to undertake a review of the scientific knowledge on solar geoengineering. The panel concluded that “SRM research and deployment decisions require an equitable, transparent, diverse and inclusive discussion of the underpinning science, impacts, risks, uncertainties and governance.”
Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative. 2023. Global status of activities relating to Solar Radiation Modification and its governance
The Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative created a briefing note that summarizes key activities related to solar geoengineering and its governance. The note highlights that “with an increasing number of UN, government and non-governmental actors now beginning to highlight the need for more comprehensive governance of SRM the issue is now firmly emerging onto the international agenda.”
Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative. 2023. Global status of activities relating to Solar Radiation Modification and its governance
The Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative created a briefing note that summarizes key activities related to solar geoengineering and its governance. The note highlights that “with an increasing number of UN, government and non-governmental actors now beginning to highlight the need for more comprehensive governance of SRM the issue is now firmly emerging onto the international agenda.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a consensus study report that proposed a plan for a transdisciplinary solar geoengineering research program that “would enable research governance and research activities to evolve hand-in-hand, with ongoing mechanisms for stakeholder engagement and input” as well as “international coordination and co-development of research with other countries”.
Chhetri et al. 2018. Governing Solar Radiation Management: A Report from the Academic Working Group on Climate Engineering Governance
The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University convened an expert working group to study solar geoengineering and offer governance recommendations for policymakers and civil society. The consensus report emphasizes the need to govern solar geoengineering and “seeks to
define what it means to govern SRM well in the
near term with an eye toward the future.”
Union of Concerned Scientists. 2020. Strengthening Public Input on Solar Geoengineering Research
The Union of Concerned Scientists published an issue brief that emphasizes “the need for inclusive public and stakeholder participation in decisionmaking concerning SG research” and provides recommendations for how “researchers and research funders can meaningfully engage the public and stakeholders in this decisionmaking.”
National Research Council. 2015. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth.
The National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report emphasizing that solar geoengineering presents poorly understood risks, and that a greater understanding of its intended and unintended impacts is needed to inform decisionmaking.
Royal Society. 2009. Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society released a landmark report on geoengineering, emphasizing that geoengineering “should only be considered as part of a wider package of options for addressing climate change”, and the “greatest challenges to the successful deployment
of geoengineering may be the social, ethical, legal and
political issues associated with governance, rather than
scientific and technical issues.”
Justice-focused resources
TechEthos Report on the Ethics of Disruptive Technologies, including Climate Engineering (pages 100-115)
Simon Caney, Climate Justice, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Sikina Jinnah, Simon Nicholson, and Jane Flegal, Toward Legitimate Governance of Solar Engineering Research: A Role for Substate Actors
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò & Shuchi Talati, Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice
Patrick Taylor Smith 2021. Legitimacy and Non-Domination in Solar Radiation Management Research
Kyle Powys Whyte, Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations
Select workshop reports
August 2022. Americas Conference on Solar Radiation Modification: Science, Governance and Implications for the Region, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Beyerl, K., & Maas, A. 2014. Perspectives on Climate Engineering from Pacific Small Island States. Workshop Report.
African Academy of Sciences and Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative. 2013. Governance of Research on Solar Geoengineering: African Perspectives. Consolidated Report of Three Workshops in Senegal, South Africa, and Ethiopia. https://www.interacademies.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/AAS-SRMGI-compr-Africa-Report.pdf
RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies. 2011. Pilot Workshop on ‘Governing Geoengineering in the 21st Century: Asian Perspectives. https://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/nts/2408-pilot-workshop-on-governing-ge/.