Geoengineering and the humanitarian challenge

Suarez, Pablo; Banerjee, Bidisha; Suarez, Janot Mendler de

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“…Even with a best-case scenario of net reduction[1] in precipitation and temperature anomalies, SRM deployments are likely to spatially shift some burdens of climate-related impacts, engendering humanitarian externalities--externalities that governance systems fail to address. A more inclusive and nuanced conversation about what can go wrong -and what must go right -should be informed by the need to internalize potential negative externalities (Suarez et al 2013).…”

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Climate engineering and human rights

Svoboda

Buck

Suarez

2018

Environmental Politics

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Climate change threatens to infringe the human rights of many. Taking an optimistic stance, climate engineering might reduce the extent to which such rights are infringed, but it might also bring about other rights infringements. This Forum, leading off the special issue on climate engineering governance, engages three scholars in a discussion of three core issues at the intersection of human rights and climate engineering. The Forum is divided into three sections, each authored by a different scholar and discussing a distinct aspect of this relationship. First, Toby Svoboda gives an overarching view of three competing approaches to human rights, grounded in philosophy; then, Holly Jean Buck looks at lessons from how the climate migration conversation brings a human rights approach to a climate policy issue; and finally, Pablo Suarez illustrates how a humanitarian approach to climate engineering works with a human rights framework. The conclusion of the Forum draws together points of overlap across the three sections and suggests a path forward for policy and research on this topic.Together, the sections show that climate engineering, should it materialize, will pose novel human rights challenges, and may well force reconsideration of how human rights are applied as a guide to action.

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Section: Pablo Suarezmentioning

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Climate engineering and human rights

Svoboda

Buck

Suarez

2018

Environmental Politics

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“…In addition to being a catalyst for knowledge, attitude, and behaviour changes, art is an undeniably powerful tool to foster imagination, thereby supporting identification of plausible pathways to climate action and living within Earth's resources [16,19]. While superficially, imagination appears contradictory to communicating scientific facts, they are complementary.…”

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“…By encouraging an emotional response to otherwise 'cold scientific facts', it can inspire curiosity from the audience, enriching the public discourse and rebuilding scientific trust. Further, [16] argues that art can help better cope with extreme events, before and after they occur, by promoting a better understanding of research and evidence (e.g., risks and probabilities), restoring trust in science, finding creative solutions for adaptation, and coping with past events and anxiety associated with possible future events through 'art-therapy'. As such, in place of looming facts and figures communicated by science, art can inspire hope that will in turn promote positive behaviour change [17].…”

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The Virtual Water Gallery: Art as a catalyst for transforming knowledge and behaviour in water and climate

Arnal,

Schuster-Wallace

2024

Preprint

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Water is life. Water-related challenges, such as droughts, floods, water quality degradation, permafrost thaw and glacier melt, exacerbated by climate change, affect everyone. It is challenging, yet of critical importance, to communicate science on such difficult highly volatile topics. Art is a more approachable medium to traditional scientific outlets that has the potential to diversify voices at the table and to lead to more wholistic solutions to these complex challenges. Launched in 2020, the Virtual Water Gallery is a transdisciplinary science and art project of the Global Water Futures program, that aims to provide a collaborative space for dialogues between water experts, artists, and the wider public, to explore water challenges we all face. As part of this initiative, 14 artists or sci-artists representing women, men and Indigenous voices across Canada were paired with teams of Global Water Futures scientists to co-explore specific water challenges in various Canadian ecoregions and communities. These collaborations led to the co-creation of artworks exhibited online on the Virtual Water Gallery in 2021. In 2022, the Virtual Water Gallery came to life with an in-person exhibition in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. Surveys were developed to capture changes in knowledge, attitudes and water-related climate mitigation practices of visitors to this science and art online and in-person exhibition. Surveys were also developed to capture experiences of the SciArt collaboration participants. Results from the survey responses of 139 visitors hint to the significance of art in changing knowledge levels and intended behaviours related to water-related climate change mitigation, especially for visitors with low prior knowledge levels. This underscores the potential of SciArt to extend beyond communication, acting as a catalyst in the collaborative creation of new knowledge for the benefit of society. The insights gained from participant responses can serve as valuable guidance for shaping future initiatives.

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“…In the light of the potential for uneven impacts from climate engineering, social scientists, ethicists, humanitarian and environmental organizations, and members of the public have all advocated for the inclusion of more geographically and culturally diverse perspectives in future research and decision-making (Preston, 2012;Suarez and van Aalst, 2017;Whyte, 2012 (Suarez, Banerjee, & de Suarez, 2018). The following section draws on qualitative research designed to listen attentively to the concerns that vulnerable populations might have about climate engineering.…”

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Recognitional Justice, Climate Engineering, and the Care Approach

Preston

Carr

2018

Ethics, Policy & Environment

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Given the existing inequities in climate change, any proposed climate engineering strategy to solve the climate problem must meet a high threshold for justice. In contrast to an overly thin paradigm for justice that demands only a science-based assessment of potential temperature-related benefits and harms, we argue for the importance of attention to recognitional justice. Recognitional justice, we go on to claim, calls for a different type of assessment tool. Such an assessment would pay attention to neglected considerations such as relationships, context, power, vulnerability, narrative, and affect (amongst others). Here we develop a care-ethics related tool for assessing the justice (or injustice) of climate engineering with stratospheric aerosols, and suggest that qualitative social science methods may be required for its effective application. We illustrate the use of this tool with a case study involving interviews about stratospheric aerosol injection conducted in Kenya, the Solomon Islands, and the North American Arctic. Having shown through this case study the efficacy of the care approach for spotting recognitional injustice, we suggest that a care approach is not only sensitive to the considerations that count, it can also be powerfully normative.

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Geoengineering and the humanitarian challenge

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Climate engineering and human rights

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