Calls for the US to use its resources to unilaterally embark upon a programme of solar geoengineering are likely to grow louder in coming decades.
The United Nations COP summits are monuments to the impossibility of effective global governance based on international consensus.
Geoengineering is still an idea under investigation, but an idea with potentially major consequences on political behavior and decision making.
The lay reader may be forgiven if geoengineering- the use of technology to manipulate the planetary climate system in order to forestall the worst effects of global warming- sounds like science fiction. The science of such interventions remains uncertain, but assessments are proliferating – and the implications for climate governance and policy could be huge.
Do you remember when I mentioned “Greenfinger” on this blog a couple of months ago? Greenfinger would be a rich master environmental criminal — perhaps pursuing climate geoengineering without international approval.
It may be August, when many policy wonks take vacation in Washington and other capitals, but Bjørn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center is in the midst of releasing a series of papers analyzing potentially affordable solutions to global climate change.
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