Switzerland puts geoengineering on UN agenda
08/20/2021 / By Mary Villareal
Switzerland wants the United Nations’ environmental arm to take the lead on talks about how to use an untested technology that tampers with nature to slow down climate change. The technology involves geoengineering techniques that reflect the sun’s rays away and suck carbon from the atmosphere.
These techniques have long been talked about as last-resort solutions to stem the worst effects of climate change.
But with greenhouse gas emissions still high, there is growing concern that these technologies could be deployed without protections and that the prospect of a technofix will be taken as a license to keep on polluting the environment.
https://www.climate.news/2021-08-20-switzerland-puts-geoengineering-on-un-agenda.html
