SGG: Geoengineering, crisis in international order, and comparative global governance regimes: roadmaps or dead ends?

该项目的目的是提供理论和历史基础的政策相关分析，为太阳能地球工程治理倡议提供信息。它将研究频繁与核武器治理的比较是否为太阳能地球工程治理提供了有效的路线图，并利用其对核类比的分析来推进关于可行、有效和公平的太阳能地球工程治理潜力的学术和政策辩论。气候变化的后果越来越明显，这促使科学家和政策制定者考虑采取极端措施，试图通过减少入射的太阳辐射来降低全球气温，这一过程被称为太阳能地球工程。正在考虑的最突出的太阳能地球工程策略是平流层气溶胶注入（SAI），它涉及向平流层喷洒反射颗粒。如果要安全地开发和使用这项技术，就需要广泛的国际合作来管理，不断变化的国际政治条件可能使其更难控制。核武器治理经常被认为是SAI的一个有用的比较，目前太阳能地球工程文献中对核治理的引用提供了政治保证，即设计有效的全球治理是可能的。然而，核武器治理与SAI的相关性没有得到充分的研究，两种技术之间的比较最大限度地减少或忽略了核治理中持续存在的挑战。核治理中的这些挑战可能为发展太阳能地球工程治理提供经验教训。这是一个跨学科的项目，结合了档案研究、参与者观察和主要利益相关者访谈，以研究这两种可能改变地球的技术之间的历史和当前联系，为新兴的太阳能地球工程治理倡议提供更明智的分析。

The aim of this project is to provide a theoretically and historically grounded, policy-relevant analysis to inform solar geoengineering governance initiatives. It will investigate whether the frequent comparison to the governance of nuclear weapons provides an effective roadmap for solar geoengineering governance and use its analysis of the nuclear analogy to advance academic and policy debates on the potential for feasible, effective, and equitable solar geoengineering governance. The increasingly visible consequences of climate change are leading scientists and policymakers to consider the extreme measure of trying to cool global temperatures by reducing incoming solar radiation, a process called solar geoengineering. The most prominent solar geoengineering strategy being considered is Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), which involves spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere. If the technology is to be safely developed and used it will require extensive international cooperation to govern and changing international political conditions could make it more difficult to control. Nuclear weapons governance is frequently identified as a useful comparison for SAI and references to nuclear governance in solar geoengineering literature currently serve to provide political reassurance that it will be possible to design effective global governance. However, the relevance of nuclear weapons governance for SAI is underexamined and comparisons between the two technologies minimise or ignore persistent challenges in nuclear governance. These challenges in nuclear governance may suggest lessons for developing solar geoengineering governance. This is an interdisciplinary project combining archival research, participant observation and key stakeholder interviews to examine historical and current linkages between these two potentially planet-altering technologies to provide more informed analysis for emerging solar geoengineering governance initiatives.