Forum on U.S. Solar Geoengineering Research

The Conference Center at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036

Co-hosted by the Solar Geoengineering Research Program at Harvard University and the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles. Funded through a generous grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

See geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu for livestream and video archive of the event.

Agenda

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8:45 – 9:00 a.m.

Setting the Stage

• Lizzie Burns — Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Edward A. (Ted) Parson — Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, UCLA School of Law
• Gernot Wagner — Research Associate, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Lecturer, Environmental Science and Public Policy; Associate, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Part I: The Science

9:00 – 10:15 a.m

Social Science: What we know, and what we ought to know

• Edward A. (Ted) Parson [Moderator] — Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, UCLA School of Law
• Scott Barrett — Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University
• Holly Buck — Doctoral Candidate, Development Sociology, Cornell University; Faculty Fellow, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, American University
• Rose Cairns — Research Fellow, SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
• Kate Ricke — Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California San Diego

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Natural Science: What we know, and what we ought to know

• Doug MacMartin [Moderator] — Senior Research Associate, Cornell University
• Thomas Ackerman — Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), University of Washington
• David Keith — Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
• Joyce Penner — Ralph J. Cicerone Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan
• Alan Robock — Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
• Daniel Schrag — Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment; Director, Harvard Kennedy School Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m           Lunch

Part II: Policy and Politics

12:45 – 2:00 p.m.

State of Play

• Jesse Reynolds [Moderator] — Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Peter C. Frumhoff — Director of Science and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Steven P. Hamburg — Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
• Joseph Majkut — Director of Climate Science, Niskanen Center
• Janos Pasztor — Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Executive Director, Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)
• Janie Wise Thompson — Vice President, Cassidy & Associates

2:15 – 3:30 p.m.

The Path Forward

• Oliver Morton [Moderator] — Senior Editor, Essays and Briefings, The Economist
• Anna-Maria Hubert — Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary; Associate Fellow, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), University of Oxford
• Peter Kareiva — Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA; Former Chief Scientist and Vice President, The Nature Conservancy
• Andrew Light — Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Climate Program, World Resources Institute; University Professor, George Mason University
• Jane C. S. Long — Lawrence Livermore National Lab (ret)
• Kelly Wanser — Principal Director, Marine Cloud Brightening Project

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Conclusion & Next Steps

• Gernot Wagner — Research Associate, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Lecturer, Environmental Science and Public Policy; Associate, Harvard University Center for the Environment