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This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

Publisher description: A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing…

MIT Technology Review | Sep 10, 2026 | James Temple

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A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Reflective has also undertaken a handful of its own projects to promote research, including the development of an open-source solar geoengineering simulator and an online hub for collaborative research. The final phase of research would be ongoing monitoring of full-scale solar geoengineering, if the world goes ahead with it.

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