AGU climate intervention engagement: Leading the development of an ethical framework

As the global threat of climate change forces society to consider options for managing and abating its impacts, a robust body of scientific evidence and an ethical framework should guide these decisions. On 1 June 2022, AGU released a whitepaper describing its plans to convene a panel of global experts to begin this development.

These ethical framework principles will focus on climate intervention in general, but with distinction between carbon dioxide removal (CDR), solar radiation management (SRM), and other climate-altering technologies. These principles will focus solely on the ethics of the research, experimentation and deployment of such measures, not the development of policy around the measures.