This Initiative
This website informs about the call for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering launched on January 17, 2022. This call is based on an Open Letter directed at governments and the United Nations, but also open for endorsement and support by civil society organizations, from environmentalists, human rights organizations, and national and international research institutions.
To date, 500+ academics from 60+ countries have supported our call.
Below you meet the members of the Coordinating Group for this initiative.
Coordinating Group
Meet the Coordinating Group of the initiative for a Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement.
Prof. Frank Biermann (co-lead)
Professor of Global Sustainability Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Prof. Aarti Gupta (co-lead)
Professor of Global Environmental Governance, Wageningen University
Prof. Wolfgang Cramer
Professor, Director of CNRS, Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE), Member of Academie d’Agriculture de France
Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram
Assistant Professor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Research Fellow, Earth System Governance
Assoc. Prof. Rakhyun E. Kim
Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Governance, Utrecht University
Prof. Louis Kotzé
Research Professor, North-West University South Africa; Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law, Lancaster; Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke
Professor of Climate Governance and International Development and Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Alex-Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
Prof. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, FRS
Halley Professor of Physics, University of Oxford
Dr. Dana Ruddigkeit
Researcher and Policy Advisor for Public International Law, Department Sustainability Strategies and Sustainable Resource Use – German Environment Agency
Prof. David Schlosberg
Director, Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Sydney. Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia; Member of Expert Working group on Just Adaptation, Future Earth Australia and the Australian Academy of Science.
Prof. Jennie C. Stephens
Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University Boston & London
Dr. Yixian Sun
Assistant Professor in International Development, University of Bath
Prof. Stacy D. VanDeveer
Professor and Department Chair, Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Associate Professor of Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law, Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
