Planning: CRISES: Global Center for Participatory Assessment and Governance of Climate Intervention Research

气候干预技术（CIT）包括几种正在提出、理论或实验阶段的旨在改变地球气候的技术，包括通过从大气中去除二氧化碳或将阳光反射到大气中。气候变化和科技的潜在应用都将挑战人类社会，并对自然环境产生深远的影响。这些技术是否有效，谁将受益，谁将因使用这些技术而受害，这些技术可能部署在何处，它们对周围人口的影响，以及它们对社会中已经最脆弱的人的影响，这些问题都具有高度的不确定性。围绕CIT的破坏和冲突的巨大潜力导致了探索这些技术的社会维度的重要性，以告知社会如何对它们做出决策。这项规划拨款旨在探索创建气候干预技术（CIT）参与性、包容性和负责任治理的全球研究中心所需的机会、资源和组织。设想中的跨学科中心将在全球南北进行比较实证社会科学研究，以探索公众对CIT研究和部署的看法，以及如何将这些研究整合到治理中。气候干预技术研究参与性评估和治理中心的一个核心重点是，如何利用地理和人口统计学上的公共价值和观点知识，为在国家和全球范围内开展气候干预技术研究、测试和部署的协作决策提供信息。规划团队使用参与式技术评估（pTA），这是一种包容性和审慎的公众参与模式，作为整合该中心研究和实践的总体框架。为此，规划补助金召集核心合作者，沿着与资讯科技相关的五个重点研究领域确定探究途径：(i)前瞻性和评估，（ii）专家和利益相关者参与，（iii）前瞻性和多中心治理，（iv）基于证据的决策和政策制定，以及(v)公民和非正式教育和培训，为CIT的参与性评估和治理中心提供信息。通过与CIT研究人员、开发商、资助者、政策利益相关者和潜在合作者的访谈、会议或研讨会进行有针对性的外展，并创建白皮书，以确定差距。五个重点研究领域的需求和机会。一个更广泛的合作小组将对白皮书进行评估，以创建一个综合的、跨学科的、全面的研究议程，并为未来的研究和创新中心的参与式评估和治理提出建议。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Climate intervention technologies (CIT) include several technologies in proposed, theoretical, or experimental stages that aim to modify the earth’s climate, including through the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or the reflection of sunlight into the atmosphere. Both climate change and the potential use of CIT will challenge human societies and have far reaching impacts on the natural environment. There is a high degree of uncertainty about whether such technologies would work, who would benefit and who would suffer from their use, where such technologies might be located, what their effects would be on surrounding populations, and what their impact would be to those already most vulnerable in society. The significant potential for disruption and conflict surrounding CIT leads to the importance of exploring the social dimensions of these technologies to inform how society might make decisions about them. This planning grant explores the opportunities, resources and organizations needed for creating a global research center for participatory, inclusive, and responsible governance of climate intervention technologies (CIT). The envisioned transdisciplinary center will undertake comparative empirical social science research in the global north and south to explore public views on CIT research and deployment and how this research can be integrated into governance. A central focus of the envisioned Center for Participatory Assessment and Governance of Climate Intervention Technology Research is how knowledge of geographically and demographically contingent public values and perspectives can inform collaborative decision-making on CIT research, testing, and deployment at national and global scales. The planning team uses participatory technology assessment (pTA), an inclusive and deliberative public engagement model, as an overarching framework for integrating research and practice across this center. Towards this end, the planning grant convenes core collaborators to identify pathways of inquiry along five focal research areas related to CIT: (i) Foresight and Assessment, (ii) Expert and Stakeholder Engagement, (iii) Anticipatory and Polycentric Governance, (iv) Evidence-based Decision and Policy Making, and (v) Civic and Informal Education and Training to inform a center for participatory assessment and governance of CIT. Targeted outreach through interviews, meetings or workshops with CIT researchers, developers, funders, policy stakeholders, and potential collaborators and creation of white papers will identify gaps, needs and opportunities within the five focal research areas. A wider group of collaborators will convene to assess the white papers to create an integrated, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive research agenda, and develops recommendations for a future center for research and innovation in participatory assessment and governance of CIT.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.