Headline: Network of high-profile global institutions launches collaborative platform on climate engineering

Climate Engineering - the deliberate intervention into the global climate, also known as Geoengineering – has rapidly emerged into scientific, policy and public discussions of climate change over the past few years. In order to support the discourse, the network of high-profile international institutions have launched the platform “Geoengineering our climate?”.

The platform has now launched its first series of papers on “The Human Dimensions of ,Geoengineering Our Climate?’” which is composed of a working paper and opinion article series that is dedicated to exploring ethics, politics and governance of this controversial new issue. As major national and international science and policy institutions start to consider research into and governance of geoengineering technologies there is an important responsibility to inform the debate and public with a comprehensible and thus accessible introduction to the issue.

The platform brings together the contributions of an internationally diverse array of scholars, policy-makers, and civic environmentalists. In 2013/2014, around 40 working Ppapers and opinion articles will be released which will be accompanied by short video interviews with the respective authors. The papers and articles as well as the interviews will be available at geoengineeringourclimate.com. In 2015, the collected works will be published by Earthscan from Routledge’s Science in Society series, titled Geoengineering Our Climate? Ethics, Politics and Governance (HB: 978-1-84971-373-3, PB: 978-1-84971-374-0).

The network of high-profile global institutions supporting this series includes:

• Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) e.V. (Germany)
• Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford (UK)
• Consortium on Science, Policy and Outcomes at the Arizona State University (USA)
• Council on Energy, Environment and Water (India)
• Research Centre for Sustainable Development an at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China)
• Brazilian Research Group on International Relations and Climate Change (Brazil)

The Editorial Board is comprised of renowned experts in the science and policy of climate change and the directors of our partnering institutions:

• jason [dot] blackstock [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk (Jason Blackstock)
• steve [dot] rayner [at] insis [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (Steve Rayner)
• clark [dot] miller [at] asu [dot] edu (Clark Miller)
• j [dot] stilgoe [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk (Jack Stilgoe)
• mark [dot] lawrence [at] iass-potsdam [dot] de (Mark Lawrence)
• arunabha [dot] ghosh [at] ceew [dot] in (Arunabha Gosh)
• jiahuapan [at] 163 [dot] com (Pan Jiahua)
• eduviola [at] gmail [dot] com (Eduardo Viola)

For further information about the platform and its work please contact geoengineeringourclimate [at] gmail [dot] com (Sean Low).