On 19 September 2021, Heri Kuswanto and his team published the first scientific paper on SRM from Indonesia and from the entire region of Southeast Asia. It investigates how SRM could affect temperatures and humidity over Indonesia.
Six DECIMALS teams to continue their studies until 2023
SRMGI is pleased to announce that six DECIMALS projects will be continuing their research until the end of 2023. The DECIMALS projects started in 2018 and they have already begun to change the face of global SRM research.
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SRMGI commended by Nature
SRMGI’s approach to capacity-building around SRM was singled out for commendation in a Nature editorial this week.
SRMGI’s insights reflected in NASEM report
In September 2019, SRMGI’s Director, Andy Parker, was invited to present to the panel of the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM).
NASEM report praises the DECIMALS Fund
The US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) today published a major policy report on SRM: Reflecting Sunlight. The 311-page publication is the most comprehensive report on SRM to-date.
First SRM paper from the Caribbean
On 11 March 2021, another global milestone for SRM evaluation was reached when the Jamaican DECIMALS team published the first SRM research paper from the Caribbean region. It was also the first paper from a Small Island Developing State.
First workshop in Iran
On 5 March 2021, SRMGI and the Center for Research in Climate Change and Global Warming (CRCC) of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) based in Zanjan co-organised the first participatory workshop on SRM (virtually) held in Iran.
SRMGI: the trillion dollar project (sort of)
In his new book How to Spend a Trillion Dollars, science journalist Rowan Hooper explores how a trillion dollars might be spent on reducing suffering and encouraging human flourishing around the world.
Remembering Prof Laban Ogallo
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Professor Laban Ogallo on 20 November 2020. Laban served as one of the three SRMGI co-chairs from 2017 to 2020 and helped guide the expansion of the initiative in 2018.
Could SRM help Cape Town avoid ‘Day Zero’ droughts?
Beninese climatologist Dr Romaric Odoulami is the lead author of a major new study that assesses how sunlight reflection might affect the chances of so-called ‘Day Zero’ droughts in Cape Town and its region.
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