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Are climate engineering approaches fatally prone to error and abuse? Should they therefore be excluded from the climate conversation on both practical and moral grounds? Are they an emergency measure that could have far-reaching and unpredictable consequences if deployed? Or could they be a relatively straightforward remedy for some of the consequences of climate change? And how should research on these questions be regulated?
These questions, and many others raised by the prospect of climate engineering, have an ethical, social, political, and technical dimension and are relevant to all members of society. However, researchers, policy-makers and the public have so far had few opportunities to collectively engage with the subject from a wide range of perspectives. This first large international conference therefore comes at an important moment in the governance of climate engineering in particular, and climate change in general. It strives to provide a global forum for vigorous exchange and creative dialogue, to bring new voices into these critical global discussions, and to examine how climate engineering intersects with other topics within and beyond the climate change discussion.
Information on participating / attending:
Vorab-Akkreditierung erforderlich
Date:
08/18/2014 12:00 - 08/21/2014 20:30
Registration deadline:
08/15/2014
Event venue:
Scancic Hotel, Gabriele-Tergit_Promenade 19,
10963 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Environment / ecology, Geosciences, Oceanology / climate, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
07/11/2014
Sender/author:
Corina Weber
Department:
Presse und Kommunikation
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event47835
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