Sentences with phrase «of geoengineering research»

Advancing Transnational Governance of Geoengineering Research — Guest Post — Alex Hanafi and Andy Parker

In addition to field tests, other aspects of geoengineering research raise various normative questions, such as what parties should conduct such research.

But we should not ignore the ethical issues bound up with the justification and conduct of geoengineering research.

The U.S. government office that oversees federally funded climate research has recommended studies into two areas of geoengineering research, marking the first time scientists in the executive branch have formally called for studies in the controversial field.

Yet the new endorsement of geoengineering research comes amid deep uncertainty about the direction that climate research will take under the new administration of President - elect Donald Trump.

Although these methods potentially interfere with weather patterns and fail to reduce carbon dioxide concentrations and ocean acidification, Victor and colleagues call for a broad and solid foundation of geoengineering research.

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.

To imagine that some kinds of geoengineering research can be quarantined from societal concern and demands for regulation, as Parson and Keith do, requires a belief that pure research can somehow be precipitated out of a social solution using the power of «objectivity» as the precipitant.

A survey of geoengineering research in a piece by Michael Specter in The New Yorker last year introduced the chemotherapy analogy to me.

On the urgency of geoengineering research, Thompson sides with Caldeira.

What these reports do call for is some coordination of geoengineering research, with the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) as «the most obvious possibility» for a coordinating role.

It's about getting the balance right between the different functions of geoengineering research governance

So you meant that there is a scientific consensus that is in favor of geoengineering research.

Ethicist Stephen Gardiner has suggested a quite different reason for not worrying about the disincentive effects of geoengineering research.

«The scientific aspects of geoengineering research must, by necessity, advance in tandem with a thorough discussion of the social science and policy,» Keith warns.

The second relates to the wider societal implications of the knowledge gained from the conduct of geoengineering research.

The freedom of scientific research is often cited as an argument against robust governance of geoengineering research.

Mercer said the broad support of SRM could reveal a limitation of the survey, which did not ask participants to describe which aspects of geoengineering research they supported.

Another unresolved aspect of geoengineering research is the issue of governance.

Here is a paper published in the Journal PLOS Biology by Dr. Watson that goes into more detail about the governance of geoengineering research.

Governance of geoengineering research and innovation serves different functions Our discussions underscored that it is important to understand and account for the different functions of research governance in order to develop balanced regulatory and governance frameworks that are fit for purpose.