Sentences with phrase «funded geoengineering research»

SPICE is a United Kingdom government funded geoengineering research project that collaborates with the university of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Bristol to further examine the idea of Solar Radiation Management (SRM)-- which is the idea that injecting stratospheric aerosols into the atmosphere could combat global warming.

A government - funded geoengineering research project that secured a 17 - million - yuan grant has completed its first year.

Not exact matches

The biggest funder of geoengineering research has been a nonprofit fund supported by billionaire Bill Gates, which has disbursed some $ 8.5 million for research and meetings since 2007.

Peter C. Frumhoff and Jennie C. Stephen — The Siren Call of US Funding for Solar Geoengineering Research

• If the international community embraces geoengineering as a means for addressing climate change, who will fund, direct and provide oversight for research, development and implementation?

Another question concerns how geoengineering research ought to be funded.

The scientists in this group — dubbed the «geo - clique» by author Eli Kintisch — also allocate much of the funds to geoengineering research via a private trust, bring together young researchers from around the world to swap ideas under their auspices, and own patents and investments in geoengineering technologies.

The geo - clique are lobbying for a huge injection of public funds into geoengineering research, justified on the grounds that «the world» (read America in the era of the Tea Party) will never countenance the carbon abatement policies we so badly need.

Solar geoengineering ideas remain largely confined to the imagination, with very little scientific research funded to date beyond indoor modeling studies.

In a two - volume report, the council is recommending that the federal government fund a research program into geoengineering as a response to a warming globe.

But in any case, I am interested in how are we going to get the funding for research and implementing geoengineering efforts?

With regard to SRM, the lack of public funding has meant that some geoengineering experimentalists are pursuing private financing to conduct field research on solar radiation management.