Research Workshop Conducted by the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
with the support of - and in collaboration with
Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program
September 27-28, 2018
Harvard Kennedy School
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Agenda and Participant List: Download workshop agenda here.
Participant Bios: Download participant bios here.
Background Brief:
The Science and Technology of Solar Geoengineering: A Compact Summary
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Faculty Director, Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program
Peter Irvine, Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Web sites:
Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program
HSGRP Blog
Workshop Presentations:
Status update on--and insights from--research in the social sciences on The Governance of SG Deployment
Scott Barrett, Lenfest - Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Response to Scott Barrett
Stefan Schäfer, Research Group Leader, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam
Response to Scott Barrett’s status update on social science research
Gernot Wagner, Research Associate and Executive Director, Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program
Solar Geoengineering and International Law
Daniel Bodansky, Regent's Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Why Think About Geoengineering Now? Time is Much Shorter than Most Think
John P. Holdren, Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Thinking about SG – an economic perspective: Governance of the Deployment of Solar Geoengineering Conference
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Martin Weitzman, Research Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Thinking About Climate Change – An Economic Perspective
James Stock, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy , Harvard University
Criteria for decision making on deployment (Questions 1-3)
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
Public Perceptions of SG deployment and implications for governance
Dustin Tingley, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Links to debates on Kialo (also within presentation):
https://goo.gl/CQUpnh
https://goo.gl/JHi5Ew
Institutional venues for governance of SG deployment (Questions 4-5)
David Victor, Professor of International Relations, School of Global Policy and Strategy, U.C. San Diego
Governing Solar Radiation Management
Sikina Jinnah, Associate Professor of Politics, U.C. Santa Cruz
Uncertainty, Ignorance and Solar Geoengineering
Richard Zeckhauser, Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
Governance of SG deployment under conditions of uncertainty – Response
Daniel Heyen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Integrative Risk Management and Economics, ETH Zurich
How might we best define a research agenda for the governance of SG deployment?
Jesse Reynolds, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Faculty Director, Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program.
Group Photo
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