"By blocking some of the sunlight hitting the reefs, conservationists hope to dial down the rapid decline of coral."

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McKinnon, Catriona (2018): Sleepwalking into lock-in? Avoiding wrongs to future people in the governance of solar radiation management research. In Environmental Politics 118 (17), pp. 1–19. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2018.1450344.

"Arguments are advanced for two ways in which we can avoid the reckless endangerment of future people in the governance of solar radiation management (SRM) research, which could happen through lock-in to SRM deployment from research. SRM research is at an early stage, one at which the mechanisms of lock-in could start to operate. However, lock-in fit to endanger future people could be slowed or stopped through targeted governance. Governance of SRM research that does not include provisions to detect, slow, or stop lock-in fails the test of an intergenerationally adequate precautionary principle, and research governed without these provisions cannot itself be justified as a precaution against the impacts of climate change."

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"We don’t just need to draw down fossil fuels to stay below two degrees; doing so also requires “negative emissions” — extracting carbon from the atmosphere, essentially buying back some amount of existing fossil-fuel pollution through a combination of technological and agricultural tools."

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Radunsky, Klaus (2018): The Politics and Governance of Negative Emissions Technologies. In Fátima Alves, Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses Azeiteiro (Eds.): Theory and Practice of Climate Adaptation. Cham: Springer (Climate Change Management), pp. 87–104.

"The paper informs about such recently published projections that suggest that global surface temperatures will increase by approximately 5 °C (9 °F) over pre-industrial temperatures by the year 2100 and discusses options to bridge the gap to the goals specified in the Paris Agreement."

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