Growing interest in geoengineering options
Weak Signal's progress: fully-fledged
This Weak Signal came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Weak Signal:
Theme 6 - Environment (including Climate Change)
The sub-theme that best relates to this Weak Signal:
Pressures on environment and climate
When did the Weak Signal manifest ?
2005-now
Weak Signal's description
Growing number of research efforts aimed to increase the level of knowledge about the feasibility and implications of geoengineering options to limit climate change with, for example: deliberate manipulations of the radiative budget of the Earth.
Such an approach may counterbalance the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on global temperature, but may also result in undesirable side effects for crucial parts of the Earth system and humankind.
