Climate Response Fund
The Climate Response Fund is a nonprofit
organization created to stimulate and support discussion and
research into “geoengineering,” climate intervention techniques, and
other activities needed to explore innovative solutions to the
climate crisis facing the world. One of the problems facing the
field is the lack of standards and protocols for conducting research
on various methods and technologies to determine their safety and
effectiveness. Without such standards, it is difficult if not
impossible to conduct meaningful research and tests that are
scientifically valid and acceptable to the many constituencies who
have a stake in this work. To address this problem,
Climate Response Fund
will be hosting an historic international conference on the
development of ethical standards to be applied to the research and
testing of climate intervention techniques.
The conference will be held during the week of
March 22nd, 2010 at the
Asilomar Conference Center near
Monterey,
California. The Asilomar Conference
Center is the site of the
now famous 1975 conference that was instrumental in establishing
ethical standards and best practices to govern research and testing
on recombinant DNA and the technologies needed to create what is now
an enormous biotechnology sector. The conveners of the Climate
Response Fund conference anticipate that a similar set of standards
and best practices will produced as a result of this critically
important meeting, leading to the development of safe and effective
techniques to reduce global warming.
Those attending the conference include a number
of Nobel laureates, government officials from around the world,
prominent scientists, and other stakeholders, such as
environmentalists, ethicists, and economists. The conference is
being sponsored by individual donors, foundations, and numerous
countries and governmental agencies. |
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