SUNLIGHT REFLECTION BRIEFING: Research in Emergency Medicine for Climate

On June 18, 2020, SilverLining held a private briefing featuring the most promising approach to rapidly cooling the climate—increasing the reflection of sunlight from the atmosphere.

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AGENDA AND Speakers

Near-term climate risk and response
* Will Steffen, Climate Change Institute, Australian National University
* Kelly Wanser, SilverLining

Research efforts in sunlight reflection
* David Fahey, Earth System Research Lab, NOAA
* Frank Keutsch, ScopEx, Harvard University
* Sarah Doherty, Marine Cloud Brightening Project, University of Washington
* Sean Garner, Marine Cloud Brightening Project, PARC
* Jadwiga Richter, GLENS, National Center for Atmospheric Research
* Douglas MacMartin, Cornell University
* Lili Xia, Rutgers University
* Andy Parker, SRMGI Developing Country Impacts Modelling Analysis for SRM (DECIMALS)
* Ines Camilloni, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera, Argentina
* Izidine Pinto, University of Cape Town, South Africa

What’s needed and where we go from here
* Ko Barrett, Director of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Division of NOAA and Vice Chair of the IPCC James Hurrell, Scott Presidential Chair in Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado State University, and former Director of NCAR; and Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of SilverLining

Opening, interim and closing remarks by Bill Trenchard, Rachel Pritzker and Chris Sacca

Moderated by David Biello, Science Curator for TED and author of “The Unnatural World”