SRMGIGlobal Forum

2017Berlin, Germany

9 & 13 October 2017

Participant booklet

Table of content

Welcome to Berlin!...........................................3

About SRMGI ...............................................4-5

Schedule of the week.......................................6

Participants ...............................................7-16

Guest speakers .............................................17

SRMGI Co-chairs and team.........................18-19

Useful information .....................................20-21

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The SRMGI Co-chairs

Dr Steven HamburgProf. M. Qasim Jan

Prof. John Shepherd

The SRMGI Team

Sabina CarisAlex Hanafi

Dr Peter McGrathAndy Parker

François PougelAda Truong

Welcome to Berlin!

Dear Participants,

Welcome to the SRMGI Global Forum! This is the world’s first major conference focused on developing country engagement with SRM research and its governance, and we are grateful that you have travelled to Berlin to join us.

It is over six years since SRMGI began its programme of developing country outreach with workshops in India, China and Pakistan. We have now run 15 workshops across the developing world, always in concert with local partners. The goals of our meetings are always the same: to engage new voices in the discussion of SRM, with a focus on the immediate challenges of research and its governance. As you well know, developing countries stand to gain or to lose the most from SRM, but to date research and discussion have primarily taken place in developed countries. Through our work and our partnerships we hope to address this imbalance.

At the Global Forum we have over forty fantastic participants representing over twenty different countries, from such diverse fields as law, atmospheric chemistry, sociology, international relations, environmental activism, gender mainstreaming, climate modelling, economics and agriculture. This week you will work together to think through the next steps for developing country engagement with SRM research and its governance. The Global Forum also represents an opportunity to discuss and shape the new dimension of SRMGI’s work – the DECIMALS fund (Developing Country Impacts Modelling Analysis of SRM). This is a research fund that will support developing country scientists who wish to analyse the SRM impacts that matter most in their countries or regions.

We want to thank everyone who has helped make the Global Forum possible, including our developing country meeting partners, our funders at the Open Philanthropy Project, and our colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, who have contributed financially and logistically to bring so many developing country participants to Berlin for the Climate Engineering Conference 2017 (CEC17) and the Global Forum. Thanks go chiefly to yourselves however, for enduring long journeys and jetlag to work through these difficult issues and move forward developing country engagement. We look forward to working with you this week, and to the future friendships and partnerships that will come from it.

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About SRMGI

The Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI) is an international, non-governmental partnership launched by the Royal Society, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and Environmental Defense Fund in response to the Royal Society’s Geoengineering the Climate report. It seeks to expand the global conversation around the governance of solar radiation management (SRM) research, with a particular focus on developing countries and emerging economies.

Bringing new voices into the conversation

While it is unclear whether SRM would be helpful or harmful overall, one thing is clear: many developing countries would stand to gain or lose the most if SRM were ever used. They are often less resilient to environmental change, whether caused by global warming or by any geoengineering attempts to address it. Despite this, most research and discussion of SRM has so far taken place in developed countries. Recognising the need for more widespread and inclusive discussion about governance of SRM research, SRMGI was established in 2010. Since then it has led the way in bringing new voices from the developing world into the global conversation on governance of SRM research.

SRMGI does not take a position on how any research into SRM should be governed, or on whether SRM geoengineering should ever be used. But we believe that broadening the international conversation on governance of SRM research, in particular by bringing in more voices from the developing world, will strengthen humanity’s ability to handle the issue prudently and equitably.

About SRMGI

SRMGI meetings around the world

Working in partnership with local NGOs, academics and policymakers, SRMGI runs outreach meetings in developing countries, expanding local stakeholders’ engagement with the issue of governing SRM research.

Our meetings do not attempt to persuade people to think about SRM in a particular way, or even try to reach any consensus positions. Rather, they encourage participants to explore and discuss the possible risks and benefits, and to share their goals and concerns.

So far, SRMGI has held workshops in China, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Jamaica, Brazil, Guadeloupe, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, the Philippines and Kenya. We are now expanding our program of work around the world, engaging more voices across continents, academic disciplines, and different sectors of society.

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The convening organisations

SRMGI was launched in 2010 by the Royal Society, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and Environmental Defense Fund, following the publication of the Royal Society’s Geoengineering the Climate report.

Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 1.5 million members. Since 1967, it has linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society’s most urgent environmental problems. EDF is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people. Guided by science, it creates practical solutions that win support because they are nonpartisan, cost-effective and fair. edf.org

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. It aims to expand the frontiers of knowledge by championing the development and use of science, mathematics, engineering and medicine for the benefit of humanity and the good of the planet. royalsociety.org

The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) works to advance innovation and sustainable development through research, education, policy and diplomacy. TWAS, a global science academy, has nearly 1,200 elected Fellows from more than 90 countries; 15 of them are Nobel laureates. TWAS annually offers more than USD1 million in research grants and over 500 PhD and postdoctoral fellowships. twas.org

Funding

SRMGI is funded by the Open Philanthropy Project.

Previous funding sources include the InterAcademy Panel (IAP), UNESCO, Zennström Philanthropies, the Carbon War Room, and the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER).

About SRMGI

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SRMGI meetings around the world: Since 2010, SRMGI has conducted outreach meetings in 16 countries. Pictures: Kenya 2017 (top left), Philippines 2017 (top right), Jamaica 2016 (bottom left), Thailand 2017 (bottom right).

Sunday 8 October

SRMGI Global ForumWelcome dinner

18:00 - 20:00

Park Inn

Schedule of the week

Friday 13 October

SRMGI Global Forum day 209:00 - 17:00

Park Inn

SRMGI Global ForumClosing dinner19:00 - 21:00

Location TBC

Monday 9 October

SRMGI Global Forum day 109:00 - 17:00

Park Inn

CEC17 registration16:00 - 18:30

Umweltforum

CEC17 opening event & reception18:30 - 22:00

UmweltforumTuesday 10 October

CEC17 day 109:00 - 17:30

Umweltforum

CEC17 panel & dinner17:30 - 23:30

House of World Cultures (transfer organised) Wednesday 11 October

CEC17 day 209:00 - 19:30

UmweltforumThursday 12 October

CEC day 309:00 - 17:30

Umweltforum

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Prof. Paulo Artaxo (Brazil)University of São Paulo

Paulo Artaxo is professor of environmental physics at the University of São Paulo. He is interested on the effects of aerosols on the atmospheric radiation balance. He also works on the impacts of deforestation and aerosol emissions on tropical ecosystems.

Shazia Bilal (Pakistan)Bilal Law Associates

Shazia Bilal is an Advocate of Supreme Court of Pakistan. She earned her degree in Public International law from the University of Oslo, Norway. She graduated from Northwestern University School of law, Chicago USA. She has dealt with corporate, civil, and commercial legal practice. She is associated with Bilal Law Associates (BLA), a leading law firm based in Islamabad/ Rawalpindi Pakistan. During her early practice years, her voluntary work included investigation of cases concerning domestic violence & forced marriages. She has taught at leading law colleges/ Universities in Pakistan. She occasionally hold seminars for lawyers in the Bar Associations on various issues concerning women.

Dir. Glenn S. Banaguas (Philippines)Environmental and Climate Change Research Institute (ECCRI),

De La Salle Araneta University

Glenn analyses climate change and extreme events using scientific models; applies participatory approaches; and recommends science-based policy solutions. He is one of the Outstanding Young Scientists of the Philippines, awardee of Philippines’s Men and Women of Science, AIESEC’s Outstanding Leadership Award, ASEAN Champions for Biodiversity, Environmental Hero Award, and Asian Professional Award in London, United Kingdom. He is the Philippine Representative to the European Union-Asia Expert Panel for climate diplomacy; Chair of the ASEAN Science Diplomats; and the US-ASEAN Fellow for Science and Technology. He studied Climate Change and Energy at Harvard Kennedy School and took Sustainability Leadership Program from Yale University.

Prof. Chen Ying (China)Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies,

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Dr Ying Chen is a Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies (IUE), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Deputy Director of CASS Research Center for Sustainable Development (RCSD) and Professor at CASS Graduate School, and a Lead author of IPCC AR5 WGIII. Her research interests include international climate governance, energy and climate policy.

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Cicilia Githaiga (Kenya)National Environment Management Authority - Kenya

Cicilia W. Githaiga is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with over 12 years of experience, and a student in Environmental Policy and an Alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt Climate Protection Research Fellowship (2016/2017). She engages in advisory and litigation activities on environmental law and policy at the National Environmental Management Authority of Kenya. She has been involved in international negotiations relating to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol, as well as in Climate Change Negotiations under the UNFCCC (as observer).

Dr Haomiao Du (China)University of Twente

Haomiao has been working on the topic of climate engineering and international law since October 2012. She holds a PhD in international environmental law from the University of Amsterdam. Recently, she published a monograph titled ‘International legal framework for geoengineering - Managing the risks of an emerging technology’ (Routledge). Haomiao is also a lawyer qualified in China and has worked as a legal intern at the UNFCCC.

Dr Julia S. Guivant (Brazil)Federal University of Santa Catarina

Julia S. Guivant has a PhD in Sociology from the State University of Campinas (Brazil). She is full professor at the Dept of Sociology and Political Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, coordinator of the Institute of Research in Risk and Sustainability (IRIS), member of many academic organizations and of the editorial board of international journals. Her main research areas are environmental risks analysis and governance of emerging technologies.

Dr Benjamin Gyampoh (Ghana)The African Academy of Sciences

Benji Gyampoh is a climate scientist and work with the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) in Nairobi, Kenya, as a Programme Manager. He is also an affiliate lecturer at the Institute of Climate Change Adaptation of the University of Nairobi.

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Eric Jhon Cruz (Philippines)National Crop Protection Center - University of the Philippines Los Baños

Eric is an agricultural chemist by profession and works as a University Researcher at the National Crop Protection Center - University of the Philippines Los Baños. His research focuses on pesticide residue analysis to address food safety concerns. He is also involved in extension works on educating and training various stakeholders on the safe and judicious use of pesticides, with emphasis on mitigation measures to minimize dietary risks and occupational risks. He is currently taking MS Environmental Science and is interested in the Environmental Chemistry, socio-political, and ethical aspects of various environmental issues. Outside the university, he is a backyard farmer, a runner, and a voracious reader.

Dr Aphiya Hathayatham (Thailand)National Science Museum, Thailand

Dr Hathayatham is a Vice President of the National Science Museum, Thailand. She holds M.Sc.in Seed Technology from Mississippi State University, USA.and PhD in Science Communication from the National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Faculty of Science, The Australian National University, Australia. She has joined the National Science Museum from the very beginning in 1997. In 2015 she received Deepak Rathore International Award for Science Popularization. She is a Co-opted Councilor of Asia Pacific Network of Science and Technology Centre/Museum (ASPAC), a member of the Global Network of Science Academies on Science Education Program (IAP SEP) Global Council, and a Vice President of the Association of Academies and Societies of Science in Asia (AASSA).

Dr Patricia Ann Jaranilla Sanchez (Philippines)University of the Philippines Los Baños

Dr Patricia Ann Jaranilla Sanchez is an associate professor in the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) with the School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM) and a visiting associate scientist in the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Previously, she was a Research Specialist in the International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) working on flood and drought risks. As a Research Associate in the University of Tokyo, she was working on basin-scale hydrological modelling of floods and droughts in Asian (Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Mongolia) and African (Niger) basins.

Amb. Shafqat Kakakhel (Pakistan)Sustainable Development Policy Institute

After serving as a member of Pakistan’s Foreign Service (1969-1998), Amb. Kakakhel joined the UN in 1998 as Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of UNEP. He was responsible for the development and implementation of UNEP’s global program and coordination of the Organization’s global policies. Since retirement and return to Pakistan, Kakakhel has been actively engaged in promoting sustainable development and climate change policies. He serves on the policy panels of several official and civil society organizations. He has also contributed to efforts to promote cooperation between Pakistan and India on climate change and transboundary waters issues. Kakakhel is Chair of the Board of Governors of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad.

Dr Prakash Kashwan (India)University of Connecticut

Prakash Kashwan teaches at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, with specializations in global environmental governance and political economy of environment & development. He is the author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2017) and of articles in Ecological Economics, Regional Environmental Change, Land Use Policy, and Global Environmental Politics, among others. He is a member of the Academic Working Group on International Governance of Climate Engineering convened by the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment. He was among the winners of 2009 Young Scientist Research Award from the International Foundation for Science (IFS), Stockholm.

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Prof. Felino P. Lansigan (Philippines)University of the Philippines Los Baños

Dr Felino P. Lansigan is Professor of environmental statistics, and of environmental science at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). He is currently Dean of the UPLB College of Arts and Sciences, and also Director of UPLB Climate and Disaster Risks Studies Center. He is editor-in-chief of an international ISI-indexed journal, and member of editorial boards of two other peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of National Panel of Technical Experts of the Philippine Climate Change Commission. He was lead author of the IPCC Working Group II Third and Fifth Assessment Reports. He was member of the scientific steering committee of the Global Water System Project (GWSP), and of the Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zones (LOICZ).

N.R. Musfika Laiju (Bangladesh)Sheba Manab Kallyan Kendra (SMKK)

N.R.Musfika Laiju is a women’s rights activitist in Bangladesh. She has 20 years experience in the Bangladesh development sector working on issues such as gender mainstreaming, radical participation, teen pregnancy, maternal mortality and women in water with an intercultural approach as well as Bangladesh women priorities. She is involved intensely with integrating women in conservation through USAID’S Tiger Conservation Activity (Bagh). She is the first person who has directly focused on women’s contribution to conservation, and successfully engaging women. In her recent position as the Director of Gender and women empowerment, she is involved in policy advocacy, decision-making and strategy formulation

Prof. Rodel D. Lasco (Philippines)World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and The Oscar M Lopez Center

Dr Rodel D. Lasco has more than 35 years of experience in natural resources and environmental research, conservation, education and development at the national and international level. He is an author of the IPCC, the 2007 co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also a member of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in the Philippines. He is the Philippines Coordinator of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) since April 2004, a centre devoted to promoting “tree on farms”. Concurrently, he is the Scientific Director of the OML Center, a private foundation whose mission is to promote research on climate adaptation and disasters risk reduction. He is an affiliate professor at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños.

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Prof. Asfawossen Asrat Kassaye (Ethiopia)School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University

Prof. Asfawossen Asrat KASSAYE is Professor of Geology at the School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University. He is engaged in teaching and research in Geochemistry-Petrology, Palaeoclimatology & Palaeoenvironment, Geoarchaeology-Geoheritages-Geotourism, and has published in high impact journals including Nature Geosciences, Nature Climate Change, Geology, PLosOne, and Quaternary Science Reviews. He has served as the Vice President of the Geological Society of Africa and President of the Eastern Africa Quaternary Research Association; he is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) and of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Council. He has been engaged in SRM research and governance discussions since 2012

Penehuro F Lefale (New Zealand, Samoa)LeA International Consultants, Ltd.

Penehuro Lefale has a postgraduate degree in International Environmental Legal Studies and Bachelor of Science (Physics & Mathematics) degree. In his early career, he helped develop the language for the Kyoto Protocol and worked with negotiating teams during the UNFCCC Conference of Parties meetings. Later, he was the Climate Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, a Pacific Climate Analyst with New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, and Scientific Officer of the World Climate Program in the World Meteorological Organization. As the lead author for the Chapter on Small Islands for Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize with his climate colleagues in 2007.

Ndivhuwo Cecilia Mukosi (South Africa)Council for Geoscience, Pretoria

Ndivhuwo Cecilia Mukosi is a field Geologist with expertise in geological and geochemical mapping. She has worked in both local and international projects. She actively mentors and supervises interns and postgraduate students at the Council for Geoscience and the university respectively. She is passionate about geoscience in Africa.

Prof. Ratemo W. Michieka (Kenya)University of Nairobi

Ratemo is a Professor of weed science and environment at the University of Nairobi; graduated from Rutgers University, USA; Founding Vice Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology; former Director General of National Environment Management Authority; former member of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC); former Chairman of Inter-University Council for East Africa; strong proponent on Kenya’s environmental conservation through university students training and policy advocate; advisor to the local and international community on measures to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change in East and Central Africa regions; Honorary Secretary of Kenya National Academy of Sciences (KNAS).

Prof. Saroj Kanta Mishra (India)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Prof. Mishra is an assistant professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi. He is the Principal-Investigator of the DST Centre of Excellence in Climate Modeling funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. In the past he has worked as a research faculty in the Department of Computer Science at University of Colorado, USA and was also a visiting scientist at NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Prof. Mishra conducts research on Indian monsoon, regional climate of India, climate change and climate modeling, future climate projection, climate model development and improvement, and geo-engineering of climate for global warming mitigation. He is a co-developer of the High Order Method Modeling Environment (HOMME), a framework for building conservative and accurate climate models. He has been a member of the Community Earth System Model (CESM; considered as one of the leading climate models) working group since 2008, and ever since contributing to the development of the model.

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Evelyn Wangari Ng’ang’a (Kenya)National Drought Management Authority

Evelyn Wangari Ng’ang’a works as a drought information officer in the National Drought Management Authority. It is an agency mandated to establish mechanisms to ensure that drought does not result in emergencies and that the impacts of climate change are sufficiently mitigated. Her main responsibilities are to generate, consolidate and disseminate drought early warning information through: managing and operating the drought early warning systems and providing timely and credible early warning information on drought risks; coordinating and participating in twice-yearly, multi-stakeholder national and county food security assessments; publishing monthly bulletins that communicate the current drought status (normal, alert, alarm, emergency, recovery).

Dr Christopher Oludhe (Kenya)University of Nairobi, Department of Meteorology

Christopher Oludhe is a Meteorologist by profession and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi. He is also an Associate Lecturer at the Institute of Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA) of the University of Nairobi. Dr Oludhe has over 25 years of teaching and research experience at the University. Dr Oludhe has another Masters degree in Renewable Energy from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. His areas of interest are Renewable Energy with special focus on Wind Resource Assessment, Climate Change adaptation and mitigation. Dr Oludhe has served as a member in the Commission for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization and Technical Expert Team of the WMO-CLIPS on End-User Liaison for RA1.

Dr Nicholas Ozor (Nigeria)African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)

Nicholas Ozor, B. Agric. (First Class); MSc, Agricultural Administration (Distinction) PhD, International & Rural Development and Agricultural Extension, is the Executive Director of African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), a transdisciplinary network of researchers, policymakers, private sector, and civil society actors promoting the generation, dissemination, and use of Science, Technology and Innovations (STI) for Africa’s sustainable development covering 30 countries. He is a Commonwealth Scholar and leads many research projects on STI. He has published over 100 articles in reputable peer-reviewed journals and sits on the Board of many international bodies including the German Bioeconomy Council. He is a Teaching Fellow, African Climate Change Programme and has won many prizes for academic and professional excellence.

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Sirazoom Munira (Bangladesh)Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)

Sirazoom Munira is a Senior Research Officer at Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science at North South University (NSU), Dhaka. She completed her Bachelors and Masters on Environmental Science and Management from NSU, as a distinguished Summa Cum Laude awardee and Chancellor’s Gold Medalist. She was a Commonwealth Scholar and completed her second Masters in 2016 from Durham University, UK on Risk & Environmental Hazards with an overall Distinction. Currently, she is working on two projects based on Climate Finance Transparency Mechanism and Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) and wishes to continue working on the climate change sector in Bangladesh in the future.

Dr Didin Agustian Permadi (Indonesia)Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Dr Didin Agustian Permadi obtained his PhD degree from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and he is currently working as research specialist at the Environmental Engineering and Management to conduct some research projects co-teaching for post-graduate levels. His research of interests are mainly on application of 3-dimensional chemistry transport model for aerosol modelling and emission inventory. He served as trainers in many international trainings in the fields of emission inventory and air quality monitoring and modelling. Professionally, he is engaged with the international scientific communities such as The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology (ANCST).

Dr AKM Atiqur Rahman (Bangladesh, UK)Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)

Dr Atiq Rahman, Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), is a leading climate scientist and visionary thinker on sustainable development from South Asia and the global system. He is widely known for his research and publications on climate justice, food security and human security, poverty reduction and integrating science and community knowledge and north-South dialogue. He got the highest UN award on Environment “The Champion of the Earth 2008” from the UNEP for the Asia Pacific Region. He was a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and is a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He also received the highest Environment Award of the Government of Bangladesh called - ‘Paribesh Padak 2008’.

Mofizur Rahman (Bangladesh)icddr,b

Mofizur Rahman is an Environmental Scientist currently based in Bangladesh. He is working as a Research Investigator at the Initiative for Climate Change and Health, icddr,b. His research interest lies in human-nature interactions. Through interdisciplinary research, he is trying to widen the understanding how biodiversity and ecosystem services are affected by environmental change and how society will response to it.

Dr Ruth Potopsingh (Jamaica)University of Technology , Jamaica

Dr Ruth Potopsingh is Associate Vice President–Sustainable Energy, at the University of Technology, Jamaica where she heads the Caribbean Sustainable Energy and Innovation Institute. With over thirty years’ experience in the fields of energy, environment and development planning she has successfully impacted the advancement of commercial renewable energy in Jamaica. A strong advocate of Eco efficiency she has effectively combined her experience in corporate Jamaica with academia to create a Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy and Climate Change supported by the GIZ which includes innovation and green entrepreneurship.

MD Golam Rabbani (Bangladesh)Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)

MD Golam Rabbani has an academic background on Environmental Science. He has been working on environment, climate change and adaptation issues in the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies for about 14 years.

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Dr Lorena Sabino (Philippines)University of the Philippines Los Baños

Dr Lorena Sabino is a University Researcher at the Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños where she is currently involved in climate change and disaster risk-related research projects. She obtained her doctorate degree in Environmental Science with minors in Community Development and Social Forestry at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in June 2016. In her dissertation, she used a human security perspective in assessing how the vulnerability to climate variability and change is linked to household livelihood security. Dr Sabino loves to learn new things and apply her new knowledge and skills in conducting innovative research.

Prof. Michael A. Taylor (Jamaica)University of the West Indies

Michael Taylor is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the West Indies, Mona (Jamaica). He also served as Head of the Department of Physics from 2009-2016 and is currently the Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Science and Technology. His research interest is in the area of Caribbean climate science, including climate variability and change. Professor Taylor is the director of the Climate Studies Group, Mona (CSGM), (since 2007). The CSGM plays a leading role in coordinating and producing climate research related to the Caribbean region. Their work has been incorporated into several reports for CARICOM governments including for reporting purposes to the UNFCCC. Professor Taylor is well published, and serves on a number of national and regional climate related boards and panels.

Dr Fahad Saeed (Pakistan)Climate Analytics, Berlin

Dr Fahad Saeed has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and reports on a variety of climate-related topics. In addition to this work, he has written and contributed to various articles which concentrate on creating awareness about climate change and has also made contributions to climate communications in the form of social media appearances. Prior to joining Climate Analytics, Fahad worked at the King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia, where he still is an Adjunct Professor. He was also Research Fellow and Head of Environment and Climate Change Unit at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad, Pakistan. He has a background in physics and holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology at the University of Hamburg.

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Elnaz Roshan (Iran)University of Hamburg

Elnaz Roshan is a doctoral candidate in economics at University of Hamburg and International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling. Her research focuses on integrated cost-risk trade-off of solar radiation management (SRM) and mitigation when regional climate disparities and probabilistic information on climate sensitivity are taken into account. She is interested in decision making under uncertainty and studying the most prominent pros and cons of SRM in the concept of cost and risk.

H. Elizabeth Thompson (Barbados)Isada Consulting Group

Liz Thompson is an attorney and consultant. She is a recipient of the “Champion of the Earth” Award. Liz is a former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations where she served as Executive Coordinator of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. She was a Member of Parliament, Minister and Senator in Barbados. She coauthored, “The Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development” and “The Plain Language Guide to Rio+20,” and authored numerous articles on energy, environment, sustainability, development and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Liz holds an LLM from the Robert Gordon University, MBA with distinction from the University of Liverpool, LLB from the University of the West Indies and the Caribbean Bar qualification LEC, from the Hugh Wooding Law School.

Anjali Viswamohanan (India)Council on Energy, Environment and Water

Anjali Viswamohanan is an analyst at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, where she works extensively on regulatory and finance issues in the energy space. Her broader role is centred around assessing the feasibility of energy transition scenarios as a response to the perpetually evolving technology mix. She is keen on developing frameworks around governance issues, specifically to advance the development of technology that deals with the mounting climate change-related concerns of the underdeveloped and developing world. A lawyer by training, she has in her previous role, worked extensively on energy projects and public-private partnerships in the Indian infrastructure space.

Adrian Watson (Jamaica)Jamaica Environmental Entrepreneurs Advocacy Network - JEEAN

Adrian Watson has been environmental advocate for the last six years and has been doing grassroots community development work since he was 14 years old within his home community of Seaview Gardens. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Geography and Zoology from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Adrian has a passion for social and traditional entrepreneurship, environment, agriculture and climate change. He has played a leadership role in a number of youth organizations and with these experiences was able to co-authored ‘Youth Participation in Small (Island) Developing States of CARICOM.’ He is currently an urban beekeeper he has been able to mentor young men within his city start their own beekeeping enterprise.

Participants

Prof Eduardo Viola (Brazil)University of Brasilia

Eduardo Viola is Full Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasilia, Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development and Coordinator of the Brazilian Research Group on “The International System in the Antropocene and Global Climate Change”. He has been visiting professor in several Universities, among them Stanford, Texas at Austin, Amsterdam, Notre Dame and Colorado at Boulder. He has published extensively on Globalization and Governance, the International System in the Antropocene, the International Political Economy of Energy and Climate Change and Brazilian Climate, Energy and Foreign Policy.

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Lie Wu (China)Environmental School, Beijing Normal University

Wu Lie is a senior engineer and engineering-economist with over 20 years experience in the fields of international development and sustainable growth. He has been engaged in a suite of climate change mitigation and adaptation projects and programs region-wide. He holds a B.Sc. in water science and technology and a MSc in environmental engineering, and he is now a PhD candidate in resource & environmental economy, and affiliated as researcher associate at the Center for Global Environment Policy, Beijing Normal University. He is also registered as a consultant of the Asian Development Bank and engineer of China Engineering Consulting Association.

Zhihong Zhuo (China)Institute of Meteorology, Free University of Berlin

Zhihong Zhuo received her master degree at Zhejiang University, China in 2015, since then, she pursues her PhD in Meteorology at Free University of Berlin. Her researches concentrated in stratospheric aerosols’ hydrological impact, related to both paleoclimatology and climate Engineering. She attended a number of related summer schools and conferences and published two journal articles, the one entitled «Proxy Evidence for China’s Monsoon Precipitation Response to Volcanic Aerosols over the Past Seven Centuries» featured as an AGU research spotlight.

Dr Yuan Xin (China)Development and Research Center of China Meteorological Administration

Yuan Xin majors in sustainable development economics for his PhD degree. He is interested in governance & policies & economics issues of SRM geoengineering as well as other subjects in the fields of climate change and sustainable development. He is also a research fellow of the China geoengineering research programme. He assessed the risks on weather related disasters in China under the scenario of SRM geoengineering in his doctoral thesis. And he has published some articles in regard of SRM governance in last few years, which is still rare in China.

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Jiajun Wu (China)GEOMAR

Jiajun is a first-year PhD candidate with spectacular interest in Blue Carbon and global climate change. Jiajun moved to Kiel after finishing undergraduate study in marine biology at Ocean University of China, Tsingtao. Back then, he had intensive training in marine biology and oceanography. Afterwards, Jiajun spent 3 years in his Master program Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR. In November 2016, he started his PhD career. By estimating Blue Carbon climate engineering ideas in computational models, he looks forward to efficient and sustainable solutions to mitigate the climate change via enhancing the carbon capture & storage (CCS) in the ocean.

Guest speakers

Dr Holly Jean Buck (USA)University of California, Los Angeles

Holly Jean Buck is a NatureNet Science Fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her research interests include agroecology and climate-smart agriculture, energy landscapes, land use change, new media, and science and technology studies. At present, she is studying the socio-political feasibility of using solar geoengineering to scale up carbon removal. She has written on several aspects of climate engineering, including humanitarian and development approaches to geoengineering, gender considerations, and the social implications of scaling up negative emissions. She holds a doctorate in Development Sociology from Cornell University and a MSc in Human Ecology from Lund University, Sweden. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Dr Ben Kravitz (USA)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ben Kravitz is a climate scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His research involves using climate models to understand climate response to perturbations on a variety of timescales. Ben’s focus is on climate model simulations of geoengineering. He is the coordinator of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), an international effort to understand the robust responses of climate models to standardized scenarios of geoengineering.

Dr Pablo Suarez (USA, Argentina)Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Pablo Suarez is Associate director for research and innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, as well as visiting fellow at Boston University, honorary senior lecturer at University College London, and faculty member at University of Lugano (Switzerland). He has consulted for the UN Development Programme, the World Food Programme, the World Bank, Oxfam America, and about twenty other international humanitarian and development organizations, working in more than 60 countries. His current work addresses institutional integration across disciplines and geographic scales, and the use of innovative tools for climate risk management – including the design and facilitation of interaction for reimagining complex dynamic systems. Pablo holds a water engineering degree, a master’s in planning, and a PhD in geography.

Prof. David Keith (USA, Canada)Harvard University

David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty-five years. His work is focused on the science, technology, and public policy of solar geoengineering. He took first prize in Canada’s national physics prize exam, won MIT’s prize for excellence in experimental physics, and was one of TIME magazine’s Heroes of the Environment. David is Professor of Applied Physics in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School, and founder at Carbon Engineering, a company developing technology to capture of CO2 from ambient air.

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SRMGI Co-chairs and team

Sabina Caris (Italy)

The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) - TWAS SRMGI Staff

SRMGI Sabina obtained a degree in International Sciences and Diplomacy at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy. Since 2010, she has been working at The World Academy of Sciences – for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), assisting with TWAS programmes, in particular TWAS prizes and regional activities. Before joining TWAS, Sabina acquired experience in project management of several EU-funded projects and cross-border initiatives. Besides her work at SRMGI, she is Programme Assistant at the InterAcademy Partnership, based in Trieste, Italy.

Prof. M. Qasim Jan (Pakistan)COMSTECH / University of Peshawar - SRMGI Co-chair

Dr Qasim Jan is Distinguished National Professor (Emeritus) at Peshawar Univ, Adviser COMSTECH, Islamabad, and fellow of several academies. Previously, he was Vice Chancellor at Peshawar and QAU. Islamabad, Secretary General Pakistan Academy of Sciences, and Chairman Himalayan Regional Committee of the ILP. He travelled extensively, availed prestigious fellowships and paid research visits to many institutions. He published extensively on geology of Pakistan, especially Kohistan-Himalaya, with emphasis on crust building processes. He is/was member of governing bodies of many institutions, peer-review committees, and editorial boards of journals. He received many honours/awards, including the prestigious Pakistan civil award Hilal-i-Imtiaz.

Alex Hanafi (USA)

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) - EDF SRMGI Staff

Alex Hanafi is Senior Attorney in the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)’s Global Climate Program. He coordinates research and advocacy programs designed to promote policies and build institutions that effectively apply economic incentives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions around the globe. Alex’s work also includes research, analysis, and advocacy on effective governance systems for geoengineering research, as part the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative. Prior to joining EDF, he led the international practice for a negotiation consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Alex received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree (Biology; Art History) from Duke University.

Dr Steven Hamburg (USA)Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) - SRMGI Co-chair

As the Chief Scientist, Steve’s job is to ensure that EDF’s advocacy is based on the best available science. He is currently coordinating studies on methane emissions from the global natural gas supply chain. Prior to joining EDF, he spent 25 years at Brown University and the University of Kansas and served as a lead author for the IPCC and other panels and review bodies. He has published more than 100 scholarly papers on biogeochemistry, climate change impacts on forests, and carbon accounting. He is currently a co-chair for the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative and serves on US EPA’s Science Advisory Board, NAS’s Board on Environmental Science and Toxicology as well as many university/government advisory boards.

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Andy Parker (UK, Canada)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) - SRMGI Project Director

Andy Parker is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, and the project director of the SRM Governance Initiative (SRMGI). He has a background in climate policy and has worked on solar geoengineering for over nine years, including as a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a senior policy adviser at the Royal Society, where he led the production of the ‘Geoengineering the climate’ report. He was also a member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s geoengineering working group.

François Pougel (France, Switzerland)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) - SRMGI Project Manager

François has a MSc in earth sciences and sustainability from the University of Toulouse as well as a MA in geopolitics and international relations from Sciences Po Toulouse. He worked 4 years in corporate sustainability, coordinating collaborative projects on environmental compliance, eco-design and the end of life management of products. He was also involved in trade associations, policy and strategy making. Besides his work as project manager at SRMGI, he is now a research associate on digital governance at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.

Prof. John Shepherd CBE FRS (UK)University of Southampton - SRMGI Co-chair

John Shepherd is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Emeritus Professor of Earth System Science at the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK. He is a physicist by training, and has worked on the transport of pollutants in the atmospheric boundary layer, the dispersion of tracers in the deep ocean, the assessment & control of radioactive waste disposal in the sea, on the assessment and management of marine fish stocks, and most recently on Earth System Modelling and climate change. His current research interests include the natural variability of the climate system, and the development of simplified models of the climate system as a tool for understanding past climate changes.

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Dr Peter McGrath (UK)The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) - TWAS SRMGI Staff

Peter McGrath has a PhD in agricultural zoology and several years’ research experience in the UK and USA. In 1997 he switched careers to become a freelance science writer, eventually joining The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2003, where he looked after their capacity-building programmes. He is currently responsible for TWAS’s science policy/science diplomacy programme (where the SRMGI project sits), as well as being Coordinator of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a global network of more than 130 academies of science and medicine that together tackle critical issues at the nexus of science and policy.

Ada Truong (USA)Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) - EDF SRMGI Staff

Ada is a Research Analyst in the Office of Chief Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), based out of San Francisco, CA. She manages EDF’s involvement in the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI). In addition, Ada conducts research on a variety of topics and synthesizes scientific information to inform the design and development of EDF projects, particularly for emerging air quality and methane sensor work. She also develops and manages databases and uses a variety of tools for spatial analyses and data visualization.

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Key locations

The SRMGI Global Forum opening dinner on Sunday as well as the SRMGI Global Forum on Monday and Friday will be held at the Park Inn Berlin Alexanderplatz hotel (Alexanderplatz 7, 10178 Berlin). The location of the SRMGI Global Forum closing dinner will be communicated at a later time.

The Climate Engineering Conference (CEC17) will be held at the Umweltforum (Pufendorfstr. 11, 10249 Berlin) and the adjacent historically listed Neue Mälzerei (Friedenstr. 91, 10249 Berlin).

Useful information

Map data ©2017 GeoBasis-DE/BKG (©2009), Google Germany 500 m

Map 1: the Park Inn hotel in Alexanderplatz (accommodation and SGF17 location), as well as the two CEC17 locations (the Umweltforum and the adjacent Neue Mälzerei).

CEC17 venue: the Umweltforum

CEC17 venue: the Neue MälzereiSGF17 venue: the Park Inn Berlin Alexanderplatz

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Useful contacts during your stay

SRMGI

+49 174 761 7863 (Andy)aparker@srmgi.org

+33 670 521 514 (François)fpougel@srmgi.org

CEC17

info@ce-conference.org

Park Inn Alexanderplatz

+49 (30) 2389 0

Transport

In order to go from the Park Inn hotel in Alexanderplatz to the CEC17 venues, walk to the tram stop “U Alexanderplatz” (160m, see map 2 – not to be confused with the subway station). From there, either take the tram M5 direction Zingster Str. or the tram M6 direction Riesaer Str. and get out 4 stops later at “Klinikum im Friedrichshain”. Then walk 400m to the venue (see map 3). Please remember to keep your ticket on you all the time.

Map 2: tram stop “U Alexanderplatz”

Useful information

Map 3: tram stop “Klinikum im Friedrichshain”

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Expanding the conversation: more than 50 people from nearly 30 different countries will gather together for the SRMGI Global Forum.