The world’s largest association of earth and space scientists is calling for more transparency and community engagement for climate experiments that would alter the planet’s atmosphere.
The American Geophysical Union’s ethical framework for climate intervention research, or geoengineering, was published Tuesday after two years of debate by more than 40 international experts and contributions from hundreds of policymakers, ethicists, regulators, funders and potentially impacted communities.
Geoengineering includes interventions ranging from pulling carbon from the sea to spraying sunlight-reflecting particles into the sky.
The framework’s authors include Shuchi Talati, the executive director of the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering, and Jane Long, a senior adviser at the Environmental Defense Fund. The alliance works to amplify the world’s most vulnerable voices in the debate over solar geoengineering, while EDF is a prominent green group that is looking to bankroll additional geoengineering research.
