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Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI)
TWAS, the Royal Society (UK) and the Environment Defense Fund (USA) are co-convening a project to open up the debate on how research into solar radiation management - a potential but controversial tool to reduce the effects of global warming - could be regulated.
In 2010, TWAS joined forces with the Royal Society (UK) and the Environment Defense Fund (USA) to co-convene a project to investigate potential governance scenarios for managing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth as a possible mitigation technique to counter global warming. A series of working papers (with input from TWAS Fellows) and an open online survey made available on the SRMGI website provided the material for a series of discussions that took place during a conference at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre held on 22-24 March 2011 that convened a wide range of experts (from climate scientists to lawyers, ethicists and international governance practitioners) as well as representatives from a range of interested NGO stakeholder partners.
The results of the discussions are currently being edited and reviewed and will be published later this year.
For more information about the SRMGI project, visit the SRMGI website or view the video.
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