Solar radiation modification: ethical perspectives

Nikola Biller-Andorno; Maria do Céu Patrão Neves; Migle Laukyte; Paweł Łuków; Pierre Mallia; Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor; Thérèse Murphy; Herman Nys; Laura Palazzani; Barbara Prainsack; Nils Eric Sahlin; Tamar Sharon; Jeroen van den Hoven; Renata Veselska; Takis Vidalis; European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies

doi:10.2777/951016

Solar radiation modification: ethical perspectives

Nikola Biller-Andorno, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Migle Laukyte, Paweł Łuków, Pierre Mallia, Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor, Thérèse Murphy, Herman Nys, Laura Palazzani, Barbara Prainsack, Nils Eric Sahlin, Tamar Sharon, Jeroen van den Hoven, Renata Veselska, Takis Vidalis, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies

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In this Opinion, the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) presents ethical perspectives on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), a set of potential geoengineering techniques that could create a net cooling effect on the climate and thus help with addressing the triple planetary crisis. Little is known about how large scale deployment of SRM would play out and the risks it would incur are major and hard to predict.The EGE analyses knowledge gaps and uncertainties around SRM and maps societal and ethical concerns. It makes the case for values-based and sound participatory deliberation and decision-making in the context of a precautionary approach to SRM governance. It also calls for instituting a moratorium on large-scale SRM deployment and for research to be directed by the principle of social and environmental responsibility.

Original language	English
Publisher	Publications office of the European Union
Commissioning body	European Commission
Number of pages	61
ISBN (Print)	9789268201008
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2777/951016
Publication status	Published - 09 Dec 2024

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Biller-Andorno, N., do Céu Patrão Neves, M., Laukyte, M., Łuków, P., Mallia, P., Molnár-Gábor, F., Murphy, T., Nys, H., Palazzani, L., Prainsack, B., Sahlin, N. E., Sharon, T., van den Hoven, J., Veselska, R., Vidalis, T., & European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (2024). Solar radiation modification: ethical perspectives. Publications office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2777/951016

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