Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. Thelma Krug is among speakers at the 2022 Americas Conference on Solar Radiation Modification currently being hosted at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Regional Headquarters in Jamaica on August 24 and 25, 2022. The conference, organised by the Inter-American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research is themed Science, Governance, and Implications for the Region. It will focus on the science of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), how it could be used to address climate change and how its use if any, should be governed.

The speakers’ line-up also includes Professor of Physics and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, The UWI, Mona Campus, Professor Michael Taylor; Chief Executive Officer, National Disaster Risk Management Fund in Pakistan, Mr. Bilal Anwar; Science and Technology Development Planner, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Mrs. Farrah Hansel Murray, and Senior Research Fellow, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, Dr. Doug McMartin. The UWI currently has a team of researchers on its Mona campus investigating the potential impact on the Caribbean of using SRM to achieve the 1.5-degree global target. Findings from that team, led by Dr. Leonardo Clarke (Dept. of Physics) will also be presented.

The 2022 conference is a collaborative effort by the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (C2G); the Degrees Initiative (formerly the SRM Governance Initiative); the Inter-American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research and the University of the West Indies (The UWI), with support from the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).

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