This story was updated Dec. 12.
The European Union should broker a global agreement to regulate the use of unproven and potentially risky technologies that reduce sunlight hitting Earth as a way to address global warming, a panel of scientific advisers said Monday.
One potential problem with the plan: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Advertisement
The European Commission’s science advisers said the EU should “proactively negotiate” a global treaty to regulate solar radiation modification, also called solar geoengineering. The technologies aim to reduce warming by injecting sunlight-reflecting aerosols into the stratosphere and through other methods that some scientists say are too dangerous for field trials.
