Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies

Goals of the Conference

• Identify potential risks associated with climate intervention experiments
• Propose a system to assess experiment design for potential categorical risks and suggest precautions to assure their safe conduct
• Propose voluntary standards for climate intervention research for the international scientific community

  Recommendationshttp://climateresponsefund.org/images/Conference/finalfinalreport.pdf

• The core rationale for pursuit of climate engineering research is to advance the collective well-being of society and the environment;
• Climate engineering research is internationally planned and coordinated;
• Appropriately scoped governmental oversight, public involvement, and decision-making takes place during consideration and conduct of planned activities;
• Transparency and exchange of research plans, data, and findings minimize the need for environmentally disruptive experiments and maximize the learning from experiments that are conducted; and
• Regular, independent evaluation and assessment of the extent of understanding and uncertainty is carried out to provide optimal information and confidence for the public and policymakers.

  Steering Committeehttps://www.scribd.com/doc/25251727/The-Asilomar-International-Conference-On-Climate-Intervention-Geoengineering-Technologies-2010 The Asilomar International Conference On Climate Intervention & Geoengineering Technologies 2010

• Michael C. MacCracken, , USA
• Scott Barren, Columbia University, USA
• Roger Barry, World Data Center for Glaciology and University of Colorado, USA
• Paul Crutzen, Max Planck Institute, Germany, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
• Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, USA
• Richard Lampitt, National Oceanography Centre and University of Southampton, UK
• Diana Liverman, University of Arizona, US, and Oxford University, UK
• Thomas Lovejoy, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, USA
• Gordon McBean, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
• John Shepherd, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK
• Stephen Seidel, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, USA
• Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Tom M. L. Wigley, University of Adelaide, Australia