Babbage from The Economist (subscriber edition) Babbage: Geoengineering, something new under the sun
The kind of emissions reductions promised in this week’s sweeping COP28 agreement will not suffice to meet the most ambitious climate goals. So other plans to slow the warming are coming to the fore. Solar geoengineering—modifying the amount of Earth’s incoming sunlight—is a once-fringe idea that is at last being taken seriously. It is a strategy with considerable promise, and considerable potential risks.
Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor. Contributors: Rachel Dobbs, The Economist’s climate correspondent; Oliver Morton, a senior editor at The Economist; Douglas MacMartin, a geoengineering researcher at Cornell University; and Shuchi Talati, who leads the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering.
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