Climate Engineering Seminar

Date: 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

“New Challenges in Governing Geoengineering”

Speaker:

David G. Victor, Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego.

Contact:

Joshua Horton
joshua_horton@hks.harvard.edu

Chair:

David Keith, Faculty Associate. Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS); Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Summary:

While important technical questions surrounding geoengineering remain, including questions of cost, it is likely that political factors will be the most important ones in determining whether and how governments and firms deploy geoengineering technologies.  This talk will look at how politics is likely to influence governance arrangements.