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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
The SilverLining team will be on the ground at AGU24 to engage with the scientific community on climate risks and research, governance, and equity in climate interventions. SilverLining collaborators and grantees will present an array of talks and posters, including a special event with NYU Langone's Project HEATWAVE and moderated by Jeff Goodell, New York Times Best Selling Author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet and How to Cool the Planet.
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.
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.
Join the SilverLining team at COP29 as we host a range of events focused on climate risks and research, governance, and equity in climate interventions. We’ll highlight the need for enhanced capacity building in climate research within the Global South and improved Earth system observations. Additionally, we will organize a youth reception and collaborate with Indigenous communities on various events. Learn more.
Join SilverLining and our partners at several special events during New York City Climate Week 2024. As climate change escalates to dangerous extremes, it is increasingly important to collaborate across boundaries to rapidly advance progress in science, innovation and equity. We are proud to work with a diverse array of partners, experts and stakeholders to bring forward these dialogues, and the efforts they will highlight, at NYC Climate Week.
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 at the Climate Impact Summit on the University of Washington Marine Cloud Brightening Program. The agenda features new industry content on Decarbonisation, Energy, Alternative Materials, Cities, AI, Circularity, Food, Agriculture and other pressing climate topics.
London, UK
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.