The Potential for Solar Geoengineering to Help Counter Climate Change

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The Potential for Solar Geoengineering to Help Counter Climate Change

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Wed, 17 March 2021

16:00 – 17:30 GMT

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A Changing Planet seminar by Prof David Keith, Professor at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Kennedy School

 

Although addressing the root causes of climate change will require significant societal changes, including a rethink of our attitude towards fossil fuel consumption, various technological interventions have been proposed that might help us avoid some of its worst effects. In this Changing Planet seminar, Harvard University's Professor David Keith will present the case for how solar geoengineering could be used to mitigate some of the impacts of climate change. With many of these impacts already locked in, regardless of any future success in lowering emissions, can we afford not to consider such ambitious interventions?

David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy since ’91. Best known for his work on the science, technology, and public policy of solar geoengineering, David led the development of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program. He took first prize in Canada’s national physics prize exam, won MIT’s prize for excellence in experimental physics, and was one of TIME Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment. David is a Professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and at the Harvard Kennedy School, and founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company developing technology to capture CO2 from ambient air.

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