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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

Legal Planet

SRM has long generated concerns that, as a powerful lever on the Earth system, it could have unwanted side-effects and generate political and ethical risks, as well as lowering temperatures. From this perspective, knowledge generated by the humanities and law, let alone from indigenous ways of knowing, is not even on the radar.