47. Shuchi Talati on ethics and governance of solar geoengineering

Challenging Climate

Today’s guest is Dr. Shuchi Talati, a climate technology and governance expert and the founder of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering. In this episode, we discuss ethics and governance of solar geoengineering, the formal cancellation of Harvard’s SCoPEx experiment, and the UN Environment Assembly deliberations on Solar Radiation Modification.
Links:

• Shuchi Talati’s profile
• The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering
• Check out this paper, Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice

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Chapters

1. 47. Shuchi Talati on ethics and governance of solar geoengineering (00:00:00)

2. Intro and background (00:00:27)

3. What is DSG? (00:01:12)

4. What prompted you to focus on solar geoengineering? (00:03:01)

5. The global south in the debate of solar geoengineering (00:05:36)

6. What does capacity building look like? (00:09:35)

7. Censorship of the solar geoengineering debate? (00:13:57)

8. Looking ahead, what does DSG hope to accomplish? (00:16:09)

9. UNEA-6 Agenda on SRM (00:17:47)

10. What were the disagreements raised at UNEA? (00:22:13)

11. Criticisms to SRM talk at UNEA (00:24:35)

12. What's the role of NGOs at UNEA? (00:30:28)

13. Formal cancellation of Harvard's SCoPEx (00:34:05)

14. Why did it get cancelled? (00:39:50)

15. How should we approach governance and public engagement for controversial experiments? (00:41:37)

16. How do you know when there is enough public engagement? (00:46:00)

17. What should the climate community be talking about more? (00:48:47)