Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies

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The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies was a conference developed by Margaret Leinen of the Climate Response Fund and chaired by Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute. The conference took place in March 2010 and the recommendations were published in November 2010. The goal was to identify and minimize the risks involved with climate engineering (geoengineering, or climate intervention), and was based on the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA which discussed the potential biohazards and regulation of biotechnology. A group of over 150 scientist and engineers gathered together with lawyers, environmentalists and disaster relief workers in an open meeting to avoid accusations of conspiracy during this discussion. [1] The Asilomar Conference focused exclusively on the development of risk reduction guidelines for climate intervention experiments. [2]

Contents

Goals of the conference

Recommendations

Steering committee

References

  1. CBC.ca Player
  2. 1 2 "Conference Home". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  3. "The Asilomar Conference Recommendations on Principles for Research into Climate Engineering Techniques. Conference Report" (PDF). Asilomar Scientific Organizing Committee, Climate Institute, Washington, DC. 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  4. "The Asilomar International Conference On Climate Intervention & Geoengineering Technologies 2010 | Climate Engineering | Technology & Engineering". Scribd.

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