The Global Young Leaders Initiative, alongside Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), Operaatio Arktis (OA), Sustainability Week Pakistan (SWP), Sustenta Honduras, and Arab Climate Youth Movement, will hold a virtual event that will bring together a cohort of young climate leaders, climate scientists, and activists to discuss research, policy and equity considerations on climate interventions as a potential avenue to ensure a safe climate.

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As climate change grows more dangerous, policymakers and other stakeholders around the world have begun to consider rapid response to warming by increasing the reflection of sunlight from clouds and particles (aerosols) in the atmosphere, sometimes called “climate intervention”. Our roundtable at the Growth Summit is a dialogue among senior experts, philanthropic and other funders and thought-leaders in climate including Summit speaker, Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of SilverLining and Greg De Temmerman, Deputy CEO and Chief Science Officer of Quadrature Climate Foundation.

The roundtable follows Kelly Wanser’s mainstage talk at 11:55am at the Climate Impact Growth Retreat. If you are interested in attending, contact kendall@climateimpact.co. Passes to the main event are available to invitees of the roundtable.

Executive Director, Kelly Wanser, will speak at The Aspen Ideas Festival on climate risks and climate intervention research. The Aspen Ideas Festival, produced in partnership with NBCUniversal, brings together leaders and thinkers from around the globe to discuss the ideas that will shape tomorrow and help us understand today.

Aspen, USA | Watch recording

Organized by SilverLining. Green Africa Youth Organization, Operaatio Arktis, Sustainability Week Pakistan, and Sustenta Honduras, this event brings together scientists, academia, policymakers, youth representatives, and Indigenous and civil society organizations to collectively explore scientific, ethical, and societal dimensions of SRM.

Bonn, Germany

Executive Director, Kelly Wanser, will speak at Science Philanthropy Alliance Members’ Meeting. This meeting is hosted by the Dana Foundation, with the theme Science and Society: Bridging Science, Ethics and Policy. The meeting will focus on strengthening the role of science in society.

New York, USA

SilverLining Executive Director, Kelly Wanser, will speak on global innovation on climate action at this year’s Health And… convening, Health, Healthcare And… Climate Action. The event brings together a diverse group of stakeholders to explore cutting-edge approaches to addressing the interface of climate change, healthcare, and health.

New York, USA

Held during the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues’ Twenty-third Session and organized by the Sámi Parliament of Finland with support from Operaatio Arktis, SilverLining, and Green Africa Youth Organization, this event seeks to highlight the critical importance of integrating Indigenous perspectives, knowledge, and participation into climate intervention research. At the same time, it underscores the urgent need to center Indigenous knowledge, perspectives, and rights in global efforts to address climate change.

New York, USA | Watch Recording

Atmospheric Scientist and University of Washington Marine Cloud Brightening Program director, Dr. Sarah Doherty, will speak at TED2024 about the critical need to study how interactions between aerosols & clouds impact our climate system.

Vancouver, Canada | Watch Recording

This event focused on the challenges related to large-scale, sustainable, and equitable funding to support innovative, urgently needed scientific research on climate impacts, discussed the need to enhance scientific capacity in the Global South, how the promotion of South-South and triangular cooperation may offer possible solutions to this challenge and encouraged dialogue on increased climate impact research capacity to enable more effective and timely adaptation and DRR planning.

Dubai, UAE | Watch recording

The large uncertainty in aerosol effects is one of the greatest barriers to society’s ability to project future climate. Aerosols from pollution and other sources counter some of the heat caused by greenhouse gasses, and reducing them may inadvertently intensify near-term warming. Aerosols could also have the potential to temporarily reduce climate warming to prevent catastrophic impacts from climate change while society transitions to a sustainable future. This session featured new research from James Hansen on the impact of aerosols on climate and engage with leading experts on the nuanced relationship between aerosols, Earth’s energy balance, and possible interventions to reduce climate impacts and risks. Learn more.

Dubai, UAE

Hosted by the UNFCCC High Level Champions, the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Actio and organized by SilverLining, Green Africa Youth Organisation, Sustenta Honduras, Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar, and Sustainability Week Pakistan, this event drew attention to a critical gap in equity and capabilities for responding to climate change impacts faced by developing countries—the lack of funding and technology capacity for climate impacts research—and introduced a breakthrough initiative to establish a multilateral fund to fill this gap: the Climate Research for All Fund. The event featured keynote remarks from the distinguished United Nation’s High-Level Champion for COP26, Nigel Topping. Learn more.

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The session delved into the urgency of addressing near-term climate risks to maintain the 1.5°C limit. Through panel discussion, experts, scientists, and young leaders delved deeper into the topic of climate intervention, and its particular importance for developing countries, for instance, the importance of dialogues and research on solar climate intervention in the Global South, and why youth need to be part of policies and discussions on climate intervention.

Dubai, UAE

SilverLining hosted a dialogue among renowned climate scientist Piers Forster, Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee and Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds, and climate intervention experts Sarah Doherty of the University of Washington and Kelly Wanser of SilverLining, young climate leaders, and other stakeholders, for an open, intergenerational dialogue. The discussion focused on new findings regarding the severity of the risks of near-term climate change and the realities of potential rapid climate interventions, placing the voices of young people at the center of the conversation.

Dubai, UAE

Marginalized communities bear the brunt of climate impacts in cities, exacerbating urban inequity. This session delved into the strategies, solutions, and innovations that will drive equitable and climate-resilient urban futures. It featured a talk from SilverLining Executive Director Kelly Wanser on near-term climate risks impacting cities and how we might mitigate them.

Dubai, UAE | Watch Recording

The SilverLining team had the privilege to participate in and support a remarkable event held by youth-led Operaatio Arktis in Helsinki, Finland. This extraordinary gathering of scientists, policymakers, and indigenous and youth leaders focused on the urgency of protecting the Arctic and the need for research on an expanded set of responses.

Helsinki, Finland | Watch here

SilverLining’s Global Young Leaders Initiative held "Can We Keep 1.5°C Alive? A Global Youth Summit on Near-term Climate Risk and Climate Interventions”, an event that united a cohort of young climate leaders, expert climate scientists, and activists to discuss climate intervention research and policies.

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Organized by the Qatar Pavilion, this event brought together a diverse group of youth working in climate science, including SilverLining Research Fellow Aarushi Shah. Her remarks emphasized the importance of youth involvement in climate science.

Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt

With perspectives from impacted communities, climate science, and international law, this session explored considerations for climate justice and cutting-edge climate science to help protect the world’s most vulnerable people and ecosystems. Speakers included international law expert Dan Bodansky, WRI US Director Dan Lashof, Executive Director Kelly Wanser, UN youth leader Joshua Amponsem, Sustenta Honduras Executive Director Ricardo Pineda Guzman, and ExO Solutions CEO Nishan Degnarain.

Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt | Watch here

Hosted by UN Climate Champions as part of their Futures Labs series, this event opened with a groundbreaking discussion with Earth Commissioners, Johan Rockström and David Obura, on climate tipping points. It included an introduction to possible interventions to reduce climate warming or impacts to protect these systems; remarks from global youth leaders, governance experts, and Egypt’s UN High-Level Climate Champion Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin; and a fireside chat with UN youth leader Joshua Amponsem on considerations for justice and equity. Learn more.

Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt | Watch here

SilverLining hosted a reception to foster an intergenerational dialogue on climate intervention amongst young climate leaders and senior climate scientists. We engaged with young professionals from all over the world.

Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt

Co-organized with several youth organizations, this interactive session explored climate solutions that youth are bringing to climate resilience.

Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt | Watch here

This event brought together climate science and data experts to discuss why improving climate modeling and data access capacities in the Global South is a justice issue, and what this could mean for protecting people and the environment where it is most needed.

Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt | Watch here

Co-organized with the Green Africa Youth Organization, this event highlighted the potential for climate intervention to reduce urban disaster risk and increase communities’ resilience to climate impacts. The event included presentations of studies on urban flooding in China and projected extreme precipitation under warming and climate intervention. Learn more.

Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt | Watch here