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The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies was a
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workers in an open meeting to avoid accusations of conspiracy during this discussion. The Asilomar Conference focused exclusively on the development of risk reduction guidelines for climate intervention experiments.


Goals of the Conference

*Identify potential risks associated with climate intervention experiments *Propose a system to assess experiment design for potential categorical risks and suggest precautions to assure their safe conduct *Propose voluntary standards for climate intervention research for the international scientific community


Recommendations

*The core rationale for pursuit of climate engineering research is to advance the collective well-being of society and the environment; *Climate engineering research is internationally planned and coordinated; *Appropriately scoped governmental oversight, public involvement, and decision-making takes place during consideration and conduct of planned activities; *Transparency and exchange of research plans, data, and findings minimize the need for environmentally disruptive experiments and maximize the learning from experiments that are conducted; and *Regular, independent evaluation and assessment of the extent of understanding and uncertainty is carried out to provide optimal information and confidence for the public and policymakers


Steering Committee

*Michael C. MacCracken (chair)
Climate Institute
USA *Scott Barren,
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(corresponding member),
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, UK *Diana Liverman,
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, Canada *John Shepherd, National Oceanography Centre,
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for Climate Change Research, UK *Stephen Seidel,
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References


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External links


Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, 2010
Climate Response Fund
The Asilomar Conference Recommendations on Principles for Research into Climate Engineering Techniques. Conference Report
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