2016: Integrated Approach to Climate Change (Environmental Defense Fund)
The best way to fight climate change might be with a portfolio of strategies, integrating mitigation, adaptation, and CO2 removal. Some would include solar geoengineering, but others dismiss climate engineering interventions that reflect sunlight back into space as risky stand-alone approaches. This project will build on EDF’s role in helping to catalyze discussions about international geoengineering research governance by modeling the implications of including geoengineering as one element in a broad-based plan to meet global climate targets. The team will use dynamic emulators to model regional climate consequences of incorporating solar geoengineering, in conjunction with other essential actions like emissions cuts and carbon containment. The results will inform our understanding of geoengineering policy and applications.
Cornell: Douglas MacMartin (Cornell Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
EDF: Jane Long