Solar Radiation Management: African Participation Challenges

Salif Koné 1, 2

1. Department of Geology, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs -Abderhamane Baba Touré (ENI-ABT)

4th Interdisciplinary
410, Av. Van Vollenhoven, BP: 242 – Phone: (+223) 20 22 27 36 / Bamako-Mali. Summer School
2. PhD candidate at Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée (ISFRA) on Geoengineering
Sis N'Golonina Road 268, Gate: 238, BP: E475 – Phone/Fax: (+223) 20 21 04 66 /Bamako.
Harvard University,
(Email: skonemaat@yahoo.fr) Cambridge, MA, 2013.

KNOWLEDGE AND APPLICATION OF SRM FREE ACCESS TO EXPERIMENTS RESULTS AND DATABASES

SRM refers to proposals to cool the Earth by reflecting a small percentage For African scientific institutions allow an open access not only to
of inbound sunlight back to space, in order to reduce global warming. (1) publications, but also to experiments results.

Figure from the Royal Society’s “Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Figure From Google image
governance and uncertainty”. (Shepherd et al., 2009) (2)

MULTI-MODEL MEANS OF SURFACE WARMING (Meehl et al, 2007) MODEL OF COALITION FORMATION AND COMPETITION (Ricke et al., 2013)

The benefits of exclusive coalition-implemented solar geoengineering relative to open membership

From the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report of Working Group 1. (3) by region in 2070. (4)

SRM : ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO GOVERNANCE (5) CONCLUSION

o A collection of independent national policies
o A non-governmental, transnational code of conduct
o Adapting existing international environmental instruments and institution(s)
Required monitoring stations (Network) to access whether SRM
projects are impacting on continental, Regional, or local climate and
how strength there are. Equip African scientific institutions or
Regional monitoring centers with adequate instrumental and

o The formation of a new international instrument or institution computational capabilities.

REFERENCES :

(1), (5) Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), The Royal Society, and TWAS.org. Solar radiation management: the governance of research. ISBN 978-0-85403-933-3

(2) John Shepherd, Ken Caldeira, Joanna Haigh, David Keith, Brian Launder, Georgiina Mace, Gordon MacKerron, John Pyle, Steve Rayner, Catherine Redgwell, and
Andrew Watson. Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty. Technical report, Royal Society, 2009. URL
``http://royalsociety.org/document.asp?tip=0&id= 8770''.

(3) G.A.
Meehl, T.F. Stocker, W.D. Collins, P. Friedlingstein, A.T. Gaye, J.M. Gregory, A. Kitoh, R. Knutti, J.M. Murphy, A. Noda, S.C.B. Raper, I.G. Watterson, A.J.
Weaver, and Z.-C. Zhao. Global Climate Projections. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment
Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, September 2007. ISBN 0521880092.

(4) Katharine L Ricke, Juan B Moreno-Cruz, and Ken Caldeira. Strategic incentives for climate geoengineering coalitions to exclude broad participation. Environ. Res.
Lett. 8 (2013) 014021 (8pp). Doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014021

Poster Session Harvard University / August 5th – 9th, 2003.