“The National Academies Report on solar geoengineering … has already set into motion a major, federally coordinated national research program in the United States to develop this dangerous technology. … Scientists and researchers are not the ones who will be making decisions on deployment, so research and development should not proceed without integrating broader international perspectives. If the US government does not pause to establish effective international governance and public participation … then the NAS report will have … opened the door for the US to unilaterally shape and advance … solar geoengineering.”

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