Geoengineering research

There is evidence that efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases may be insufficient to avert unacceptable levels of climate change; global emission levels are currently higher than even the highest scenario produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001). Geo-engineering seeks to use global scale engineering to offset the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. This POSTnote summarises the arguments relating to research funding for geoengineering.

Short title:: Geoengineering
Start date:: 2009-01
End date:: 2009-03
Project leader:: Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology of the UK Parliament (POST)
Country:: United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Homepage:: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn327.pdf