Harvard @ Climate Week NYC | Time to Think About Solar Geoengineering?

A thought-provoking discussion on the emerging and controversial topic of solar geoengineering. This event brought together renowned experts to explore the broader context of climate change and the rising interest in solar geoengineering.
SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Kolbert | Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Journalist, and Visiting Fellow at Williams College
Holly Jean Buck | Salata-Radcliffe Climate Justice Fellow, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo; Author of After Geoengineering
Dan Schrag | Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Harvard University
TOPICS COVERED
-What are the scientific and engineering challenges of solar geoengineering?
-How should we think about the ethical and cultural dimensions of solar geoengineering? Why does this technological approach seem frightening to many experts?
-Why is solar geoengineering receiving more attention in recent years? Does it imply that the decarbonization is failing?
-What are the geopolitical challenges of solar geoengineering? Will this interfere with the international climate agreements?
-How should universities engage with solar geoengineering? What are the research challenges for the next decade?
Read more about the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Reserch Program here: salatainstitut...