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

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As we wrote in part 1 , a Swiss-led proposal to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) to establish an expert group on solar radiation management (SRM) proved divisive and was eventually withdrawn. But rules and norms about such technologies are patchy, and recent unauthorized experiments have set alarm bells ringing.