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Welcome to our weekly round-up of SRM news and events.  

Highlights

Recap: Degrees Global Forum 2025 SRM360 


Informed voices, informed futures: African scientists respond to misrepresentations of solar geoengineering research Africa Climate Intervention Research Hub (May 13) 


Solar Radiation Management Annual Meeting (2025) Simons Foundation (May 14)


Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research The Economist (Rachel Dobbs, May 14) 


How marine cloud brightening could also affect stratospheric ozone (Science Advances, May 14) 

In Academia

Articles


Can International Law Limit Our Technological Imagination? On the Implications of the Customary Law Obligation of Prevention for SRM Governance Sulyok, K. (European Journal of Risk Regulation, May 15) 


How marine cloud brightening could also affect stratospheric ozone Bednarz, E.M., Haywood, J.M., Visioni, D., Butler, A.H., Jones, A. (Science Advances, May 14) 


The Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: A Regional Case Study 
Cohen, S., Hurrell, J.W., Lombardozzi, D.L. (Frontiers in Climate – accepted manuscript, May 12) 


Arctic Geoengineering Between Governance and Science: A Structured Literature Review of the Arctic Geoengineering Discourse Catonini, F., Buerkert, J.S., Kristensen, K.S. (WIREs Energy and Environment, May 8)


Preprint 


Assessing the Feasibility of Zeolite-Based Dual-Function Aerosols for Stratospheric Carbon Capture and Solar Radiation Management Kurup, V. (Research Square, May 15)

SRM Community

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Recap: Degrees Global Forum 2025 SRM360 


Informed voices, informed futures: African scientists respond to misrepresentations of solar geoengineering research Africa Climate Intervention Research Hub (May 13) 


Co-create Webinar: ‘Introducing SRM: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges’ (Jun 6) 

Watch or Listen

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Geoengineer Once, Measure Twice Wicked Problems (Richard Delevan & Kelly Wanser, May 16) 


Is it time to try geoengineering? – podcast The Guardian (May 15) 


Solar Radiation Management Annual Meeting (2025) Simons Foundation (May 14) 


Live Discussion: SRM and Africa – Perspectives From the Continent SRM360 (May 14) 


Fact-checking claims about the UK's geoengineering experiments Euronews (May 12) 

SRM in the Media

Image Source:  Bruno Scramgnon, Pexels


Top Stories


UK push creates ‘massive jump’ in world geoengineering funds Research Professional News (Frances Jones, May 20) 


Dimming the Sun ‘not the way to fight climate change’ The Telegraph (Sarah Knapton, May 17) 


Right-wing media use a controversial geoengineering program to undermine tried and true climate solutions Media Matters (Ilana Berger, May 16) 


Who's Paying to Dim the Sun? We Should Know. Bloomberg (Lara Williams, May 15) 


It’s the Global North pushing solar geoengineering – and here’s who’s funding it The Canary (May 15) 


Factcheck: How the UK is – and is not – studying solar geoengineering Carbon Brief (Daisy Dunne, May 15) 


Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research The Economist (Rachel Dobbs, May 14) 


Rich nations reap most funding for geoengineering research E&E Politico (Chelsea Harvey, May 14) 



Climate in the Media

‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C Carbon Brief (May 16) 


Texas swelters as record-breaking heatwave sweeps across state The Guardian (Marina Dunbar, May 15) 


Indigenous land disputes cloud Kenya’s carbon market ambitions Climate Home News (Vivian Chime, May 15) 


Children born in 2020 will face 'unprecedented lifetime exposure' to climate extremes, and other nature and climate news WEF (Tom Crowfoot, May 14) 


Extreme weather and climate change impacts hit Africa hard WMO (May 12) 

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