"Faced with rising temperatures and a dearth of American leadership, scientists are investigating geoengineering — deliberate, large-scale interventions to cool the Earth’s climate. Geoengineering can take many forms. Solar geoengineering is the most risky and controversial."

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Ying, Chen; Yuan, Xin (2017): Implications of geoengineering under the 1.5 °c target. Analysis and policy suggestions. In: Advances in Climate Change Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.accre.2017.05.003

"In this context, geoengineering is gaining interest in the international arena. The Paris Agreement includes afforestation, carbon capture, utilization and storage, and negative emission technologies such as bio-energy with carbon capture and store. All of these techniques are CO₂ removal technologies that belong to geoengineering. Solar radiation management, which is highly controversial, has also attracted increased attention in recent years."

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"Next week, a Swiss company called Climeworks is holding an opening ceremony for their first of a kind plant that will pull 900 tons of carbon dioxide from the air per year and feed it to a neighboring greenhouse. While there are a handful of commercial and academic efforts building systems to extract carbon dioxide from air, Climeworks is the first company to deliver their product to a paying customer. They are also one of the finalists for the Virgin Earth Challenge; a $25 million award going to any solution or approach that can permanently remove one billion tons of carbon dioxide from circulation in a year."

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Deadline: 30. June 2017

"The conference will convene discussions of the vast and diverse array of questions that climate engineering raises for disciplinary research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transdisciplinary engagement. The conference organizers would like to invite abstract submissions from those interested in presenting their work at the conference."

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