May 31, 2022
More research and better governance is needed to help developing
countries make decisions about solar radiation modification (SRM),
says Thelma Krug, vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), during a C2GTalk.
SRM has come into focus due to a likely overshoot of the 1.5C
warming goal, which would bring increasing risks to people and
natural ecosystems, and—depending on the length and extent of
overshoot—potentially irreversible impacts.
Thelma Krug is a former researcher at the Earth Observation
Coordination at the National Institute for Space Research in
Brazil, under the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and
Communication (MCTIC). She was elected vice-chair of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Sixth
Cycle of Panel (October 2015 – October 2022), after having been
co-chair of the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories from 2002 until 2015.
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