How to Govern Solar Geoengineering - with Shuchi Talati

In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the challenge of governing solar geoengineering (also called Solar Radiation Management or Sunlight Reflection Methods) with Shuchi Talati who is the Founder & Executive Director of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering. Dr. Shuchi Talati is a climate technology governance expert and founder of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG), a nonprofit organization working towards just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. Prior to DSG, she most recently served as a Presidential Appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy where she was focused on creating just and sustainable frameworks for carbon dioxide removal. Dr. Talati has previously held roles in academia and civil society advising on policy and governance for emerging climate technologies, including as a Visiting Scholar at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, an AAAS/AIP Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate and the Fellow on geoengineering research governance and public engagement at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She has a BS in environmental engineering from Northwestern University, an MA in climate and society from Columbia University, and PhD from Carnegie Mellon in engineering and public policy. Dr. Talati is a member of the oversight committee for the Exploring Climate Cooling programme, directed and funded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), a UK R&D funding agency. This independent committee is designed to strengthen the governance of the programme. She is also an a member of the Advisory Board of Co-CREATE, a contributing author to the American Geophysical Union’s Ethical Framework for Climate Intervention Research, Experimentation, and Deployment, and was the co-chair of the Independent Advisory Committee to oversee SCoPEx, an effort to provide oversight for the proposed solar geoengineering experiment by Harvard University. Follow Shuchi on X/Twitter: @sktalati and Bluesky: ‪@sktalati.bsky.social‬ The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering: https://sgdeliberation.org ---------------- Follow Dan Miller on X/Twitter: @danmiller999 Follow Dan Miller on Bluesky: @danmiller999.bsky.social and @climatechat.bsky.social To join the Zoom discussion, visit Dan's Clubhouse room. The Clubhouse link is provided in Dan's Twitter feed. You can also leave a question in the YouTube Live chat. Please begin your question with "Question:" to make it easy for our mods to spot it. For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat For recent YouTube Live programs: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat/streams