by Derrick Broze, Activist Post:
A scientific advisory board has called on the European Union to halt solar geoengineering technologies while calling for a “global governance system” to tackle the issue.
A group of scientists and policymakers have recommended the European Union support a Europe-wide moratorium on using a controversial geoengineering technique known as solar geoengineering.
The scientists warn that the benefits and risks of solar geoengineering proposals are “highly uncertain”. They state that deploying the technology could impact the climate in different parts of the world and “would be difficult to predict and difficult to manage in practice.”
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The group also called for ensuring that any future research on solar geoengineering is “rigorous, ethical and explicit about uncertainties”, and for reassessing the “risks and potential opportunities” every five to ten years.
The recommendations were first detailed in a December 2024 report by the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM), an organization which provides “independent scientific evidence” and policy recommendations to the College of European Commissioners. The SAM is made up of three sub organizations, including the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, seven scientists whose job is to make recommendations to the EU.
Support and opposition to geoengineering technologies have been growing over the last decade as a potential solution for alleged climate related disasters. There are several types of geoengineering, including Solar Radiation Management (SRM) or solar geoengineering. Stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI, is a specific solar geoengineering practice which involves spraying aerosols into the sky in an attempt to deflect the Sun’s rays.
“For decades, technologies have been proposed that would reduce or counteract global warming by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth. These proposals, known as “solar radiation modification” technologies, include stratospheric aerosol injection, cloud brightening, and others,” the report states.
While the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors note that climate models show potential for fighting “global warming” with geoengineering, they also acknowledge that it could have both intended and unintended impacts.
“They could have negative impacts on ecosystems, change rainfall patterns, and hamper food production,” the scientists wrote. “Any large-scale intervention in our common planetary environment would have systemic consequences.”
Aarti Gupta, a professor of global environmental governance at Wageningen University and part of the team that produced the report which guided the scientists, told The Guardian it was “crucially important” the EU calls for a moratorium on SRM.
