Talk/Lecture: Reinvent Climate Management

"During this roundtable we will face up to this extremely difficult problem and talk about how to Reinvent Climate Management. [...] This roundtable will be driven by Jamais Cascio, a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, who is author of Hacking the Earth: Understanding the Consequences of Geoengineering, and who is now at work on his second book."

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Talk/Lecture: The International Governance of Climate Engineering

28.06.2013, Instiute for European Studies, Brussels

"This policy forum will present and discuss options for developing arrangements for the international governance of climate engineering based on a study for the German Federal Environment Agency led by Ecologic Institute."

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8th CE-newsletter available now

The eighth climate engineering newsletter is available here.


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Talk/Lecture documentation: Solar radiation management: An evolving climate policy option

Video from the following event: 29.05.2013, Washington, DC. Presentation by J. E. Bickel and Lee Lane. Discussion with T. Schelling. "A new paper by Lee Lane of the Hudson Institute and J. Eric Bickel of the University of Texas at Austin probes the truth of these propositions. The paper shows the potential economic benefits of SRM but also explores its risks."

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Panel discussion: New Priority Program on the assessment of CE in Germany

03.06.2013, Berlin

A new Priority Program on the assessment of climate engineering is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG): „Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?“ (SPP 1689) – coordinated by Andreas Oschlies, GEOMAR, Kiel. Its first 3-year phase (2012-2015) is funded with about 5 Mio Euro. The kick-off meeting will take place in Berlin 3rd of June 2013.

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Job: 2 PhD positions in climate modeling (German)

Application submission: 17.05.2013

2 Phd positions in Kiel/Germany for climate modeling of CE side effects and uncertainties.

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Video: Mind the Gap - Climate Engineering between Models and Reality / Panel Discussion

Video recorded panel discussion from the IASS meeting in Potsdam "Mind the Gap" on 16.04.2013.

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Job: Scientist/Postdoc in climate modeling/data analysis

"The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is a multidisciplinary center for climate and Earth system research located in Hamburg, Germany. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorol-ogy contributes to the ComparCE project funded by the DFG (German Science foundation) within the priority program “Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?”."

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Workshop: Religious and Spiritual Perspectives on Climate Engineering

24.-26.04.2013, Potsdam/Germany

"We are convening a scientific workshop that addresses how climate engineering can be conceptualized within different religious and spiritual framings and worldviews."

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Workshop: The Politics of Geoengineering

07.05.2013, London

Workshop by invitation. "A workshop on the politics behind the different ‘geoengineering’ options."

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