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Publication Designing Procedural Mechanisms for the Governance of Solar Radiation Management Field Experiments(2015) Blackstock, Jason J.; Craik, Neil; Doughty, Jack; Horton, JoshuaPublication The Emergency Framing of Solar Geoengineering: Time for a Different Approach(SAGE Publications, 2015) Horton, JoshuaSolar geoengineering has been proposed as a possible response measure in the event of a "climate emergency." Scientific evidence for climate emergencies in the form of tipping points, however, is contested and unsettled. Furthermore, declarations of emergency entail authoritarian political tendencies that historically have given rise to repression and abuse. By definition, an emergency must exhibit a combination of high risk, urgency and necessity; no plausible climatic tipping point displays all these attributes simultaneously. A weak scientific basis together with genuine societal peril argues against the continued emergency framing of solar geoengineering.Publication Liability for Solar Geoengineering: Historical Precedents, Contemporary Innovations, and Governance Possibilities(2015) Horton, Joshua; Parker, Andrew Richard; Keith, DavidPublication Designing Procedural Mechanisms for the Governance of Solar Radiation Management Field Experiments: Workshop Report(Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2015) Blackstock, Jason; Craik, Neil; Doughty, Jack; Horton, JoshuaThe unexpected ocean fertilization experiment off the west coast of Canada in 2012 highlights the reality that non-governmental actors can already initiate small- to medium-scale environmental experiments and solar radiation management (SRM) field experiments with no government funding or approval. Without careful consideration and development of a governance framework for these types of experimentation, governments could be caught out having to respond ad hoc to situations driven by non-governmental actors. This two-day workshop considered and evaluated governance mechanisms that may be useful for managing proposed SRM field experiments. Two specific procedural mechanisms were under consideration: environmental impact assessments and research registries. To ensure discussions were as realistic as possible, participants used a set of recently published SRM field experiment proposals as hypothetical examples when considering and evaluating both mechanisms. The workshop operated under the Chatham House Rule, and no attempts were made to forge consensus positions or to generate policy recommendations. Rather, this workshop was exploratory in nature, with discussions ranging widely along with personal opinions on some topics.Publication Climate emergencies do not justify engineering the climate(Nature Publishing Group, 2015) Sillmann, Jana; Lenton, Timothy M.; Levermann, Anders; Ott, Konrad; Hulme, Mike; Benduhn, Francois; Horton, JoshuaCurrent climate engineering proposals do not come close to addressing the complex and contested nature of conceivable ‘climate emergencies’ resulting from unabated greenhouse gas emissions.Publication Solar Geoengineering and Obligations to the Global Poor(Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Horton, Joshua; Keith, David