Solar geoengineering could ‘fail to prevent damage to crop yields’
Releasing aerosols into the atmosphere in order to limit the rise in global temperature would not stave off damage to crop yields, a new study... Read More
Negative emissions: Scientists meet in Sweden for first international conference
This week, Gothenburg in Sweden played host to the first international conference on “negative emissions”. ... Read More
Analysis: How ‘natural climate solutions’ can reduce the need for BECCS
To limit global warming in 2100 to below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, many scientists assume that the large-scale use of negative emissions in... Read More
Restricting global warming to 1.5C could ‘halve’ risk of biodiversity loss
Limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels rather than 2C could halve the number of vertebrate and plant species facing severe range... Read More
Explainer: Six ideas to limit global warming with solar geoengineering
Scientists agree that cutting global greenhouse emissions as soon as possible will be key to tackling global warming. But, with global emissions still... Read More
Solar geoengineering: Risk of ‘termination shock’ overplayed, study says
Solar geoengineering, or “solar radiation management” (SRM), is perhaps the most controversial of the different ways of limiting human-caused... Read More
Geoengineering carries ‘large risks’ for the natural world, studies show
Reducing the impacts of human-caused climate change through the use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – better known as BECCS – could... Read More
The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Bill Hare
Dr Bill Hare is the co-founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, an international non-profit climate science and policy institute based in Germany. He is... Read More
The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Katharine Hayhoe
Dr Katharine Hayhoe is a professor in the department of political science at Texas Tech University and director of its Climate Science Center. She was... Read More
Unregulated solar geoengineering could spark droughts and hurricanes, study warns
Artificially cooling the planet through solar geoengineering could have some dramatic side effects – including an increase in droughts and... Read More
Geoengineering: Scientists in Berlin debate radical ways to reverse global warming
Research scientists, policymakers and ethicists gathered in Berlin this week to discuss the emerging field of “climate engineering” and what it... Read More
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