For three decades, climate policy proposals have focused on a single approach: reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other greenhouse gases. Since 1990, however, global CO₂ emissions have increased 60 percent, atmospheric CO₂ concentrations have raced past 400 parts per million, and temperatures increased at an accelerating rate.
On Thursday, June 4, RFF hosted a webinar featuring Joseph Aldy and Richard Zeckhauser, both scholars at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, as they discuss their recent research evaluating a three-pronged strategy for mitigating climate change risks: adding adaptation and amelioration—through solar radiation management (SRM)—to the emissions mitigation approach. This RFF Live event features a discussion on SRM’s potential role in offsetting warming at low cost, and will also assess the concern that SRM would diminish traditional emissions mitigation incentives.
