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Climate engineering reconsidered

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  • Scott Barrett

    (School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University)

  • Timothy M. Lenton

    (College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter)

  • Antony Millner

    (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics)

  • Alessandro Tavoni

    (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics)

  • Stephen Carpenter

    (Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin)

  • John M. Anderies

    (School of Sustainability, Arizona State University)

  • F. Stuart Chapin

    (Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

  • Anne-Sophie Crépin

    (Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)

  • Gretchen Daily

    (Stanford University)

  • Paul Ehrlich

    (Stanford University)

  • Carl Folke

    (Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)

  • Victor Galaz

    (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)

  • Terry Hughes

    (Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University)

  • Nils Kautsky

    (Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University)

  • Eric F. Lambin

    (University of Louvain)

  • Rosamond Naylor

    (Stanford University)

  • Karine Nyborg

    (University of Oslo)

  • Stephen Polasky

    (University of Minnesota)

  • Marten Scheffer

    (Wageningen University)

  • James Wilen

    (University of California)

  • Anastasios Xepapadeas

    (Athens University of Economics and Business)

  • Aart de Zeeuw

    (Tilburg University)

Abstract

Stratospheric injection of sulphate aerosols has been advocated as an emergency geoengineering measure to tackle dangerous climate change, or as a stop-gap until atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are reduced. But it may not prove to be the game-changer that some imagine.

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  • Scott Barrett & Timothy M. Lenton & Antony Millner & Alessandro Tavoni & Stephen Carpenter & John M. Anderies & F. Stuart Chapin & Anne-Sophie Crépin & Gretchen Daily & Paul Ehrlich & Carl Folke & Vic, 2014. "Climate engineering reconsidered," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 4(7), pages 527-529, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:4:y:2014:i:7:d:10.1038_nclimate2278
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2278
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    • Barrett, Scott & Lenton, Timothy M. & Millner, Antony & Tavoni, Alessandro & Carpenter, Stephen & Anderies, John M. & Chapin, F. Stuart & Crépin, Anne-Sophie & Daily, Gretchen & Ehrlich, Paul & Folke,, 2014. "Climate engineering reconsidered," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 58139, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Barrett, S. & Lenton, T.M. & Millner, A. & Tavoni, A. & Carpenter, S.R. & Anderies, J.M. & Chapin III, F.S. & Crépin, A.S. & Daily, G. & Ehrlich, P. & Folke, C. & Galaz, V. & Hughes, T.P. & Kautsky, N, 2014. "Climate engineering reconsidered," Other publications TiSEM 880b526e-6ba9-4e48-8463-1, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

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    1. Johannes Emmerling & Vassiliki Manoussi & Anastasios Xepapadeas, 2016. "Climate Engineering under Deep Uncertainty and Heterogeneity," Working Papers 2016.52, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    2. Elnaz Roshan & Mohammad M. Khabbazan & Hermann Held, 2019. "Cost-Risk Trade-Off of Mitigation and Solar Geoengineering: Considering Regional Disparities Under Probabilistic Climate Sensitivity," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 72(1), pages 263-279, January.
    3. Heyen, Daniel & Horton, Joshua & Moreno-Cruz, Juan, 2019. "Strategic implications of counter-geoengineering: Clash or cooperation?," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 153-177.
    4. Oliver D. Bettis & Simon Dietz & Nick G. Silver, 2017. "The risk of climate ruin," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 140(2), pages 109-118, January.
    5. Baran Doda, 2014. "Why is geoengineering so tempting?," GRI Working Papers 170, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
    6. Anne van Aaken & Janis Antonovics & Scott Barrett, 2016. "Collective Action to Avoid Catastrophe: When Countries Succeed, When They Fail, and Why," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 7, pages 45-55, May.
    7. Manoussi, Vassiliki & Xepapadeas, Anastasios & Emmerling, Johannes, 2018. "Climate engineering under deep uncertainty," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 207-224.
    8. Sovacool, Benjamin K. & Baum, Chad M. & Low, Sean, 2023. "Beyond climate stabilization: Exploring the perceived sociotechnical co-impacts of carbon removal and solar geoengineering," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 204(PA).
    9. Moriarty, Patrick & Honnery, Damon, 2019. "Ecosystem maintenance energy and the need for a green EROI," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 229-234.
    10. Heutel, Garth & Moreno-Cruz, Juan & Shayegh, Soheil, 2016. "Climate tipping points and solar geoengineering," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 132(PB), pages 19-45.
    11. Anastasios Xepapadeas & Athanasios Yannacopoulos, 2018. "Spatially Structured Deep Uncertainty, Robust Control, and Climate Change Policies," DEOS Working Papers 1807, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    12. Heyen, Daniel & Tavoni, Alessandro, 2024. "Strategic dimensions of solar geoengineering: economic theory and experiments," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 124448, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    JEL classification:

    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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