Impacts, risks, and governance of climate engineering

Climate engineering is a potential alternative method to curb global warming, and this discipline has garnered considerable attention from the international scientific community including the Chinese scientists. This manuscript provides an overview of several aspects of climate engineering, includin...

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Main Authors: Zhe Liu, Ying Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2015-09-01
Series:Advances in Climate Change Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674927815000830
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Summary:Climate engineering is a potential alternative method to curb global warming, and this discipline has garnered considerable attention from the international scientific community including the Chinese scientists. This manuscript provides an overview of several aspects of climate engineering, including its definition, its potential impacts and risk, and its governance status. The overall conclusion is that China is not yet ready to implement climate engineering. However, it is important for China to continue conducting research on climate engineering, particularly with respect to its feasible application within China, its potential social, economic, and environmental impacts, and possible international governance structures and governing principles, with regard to both experimentation and implementation.
ISSN:1674-9278