Co-CREATE - Conditions for Responsible Research of SRM –?Analysis, Co-creation, and Ethos

关于太阳辐射调节（SRM）的实验研究存在争议，担心会分散人们对减缓气候变化的注意力，或导致危险地使用SRM。尚不清楚实验性SRM研究是否以及在何种条件和治理安排下可能有利于减少不确定性和降低有问题结果的可能性，包括在其他地方单方面部署。Co-CREATE旨在通过共同创造性的范围界定、分析和参与原则和指导方针的制定，帮助构建这一决策问题。该项目从一系列范围界定说明开始，概述了SRM实验研究的关键维度，包括可能的案例及其地理位置、利益相关者和权利持有人以及监管影响，这些都是概念性工作的基础。然后，通过询问我们可以从治理类似物中学到什么，以及各种（风险）评估框架如何有助于确定研究提案的关键特征，Co-CREATE分析并开发决策支持工具。Co CREATE进一步分析可能的法律和程序条件，包括适当的参与。Co-CREATE本身将为这些治理要素的发展进入广泛的利益攸关方和权利持有人对话，以验证初步分析工作，确保包括利益攸关方关注的不同层面，并加强审议能力。共同创建提出指导方针和原则，以促进有关当局就更广泛的SRM实验研究类别以及个案决定作出决策。一份草案将在Co-CREATE主持的会议上讨论，然后根据收到的反馈进行完善。拟议的原则和指导方针将基于对科学价值、风险的物理和政治层面以及风险衰减效益的理解，并考虑在项目期间共同创造性地确定的更广泛的价值观和关注点。

Experimental research on solar radiation modification (SRM) is controversial and feared to distract from climate change mitigation or leading to dangerous SRM use. It is not clear whether and under which conditions and governance arrangements experimental SRM research may be desirable for reducing uncertainties and lowering the probability of problematic outcomes including unilateral deployment elsewhere. Co-CREATE seeks to help structure this decision problem through co-creative scoping, analysis, and engagement for the development of principles and guidelines. The project starts with a series of scoping notes that outline key dimensions of experimental SRM research including possible cases and their geographical, stake- and rightsholder, and regulatory implications, which ground the conceptual work. Co-CREATE then analyses and develops decision-support tools by asking what we can learn from governance analogues, and how various (risk) evaluation frameworks may help identify key characteristics of research proposals. Co CREATE furthermore analyses possible legal and procedural conditions including appropriate participation. Co-CREATE itself will for the development of these governance elements enter an extensive stakeholder and rightsholder dialogue that validates preliminary analytical work, ensures stakeholders’ diverse dimensions of concern are included, and strengthens deliberative capacity. Co-CREATE proposes guidelines and principles to facilitate decision-making by the relevant authorities on broader categories of experimental research of SRM as well as case-by-case decisions. A draft will be discussed at a Co-CREATE hosted conference and later refined based on feedback received. Proposed principles and guidelines will be grounded in a understanding of scientific merit, physical and political dimensions of risk and risk-attenuation benefit, and consideration of broader sets of values and concerns – co-creatively identified during the project.