Potentials and critiques of building a Southeast Asian interdisciplinary knowledge community on critical geoengineering
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Potentials and critiques of building a Southeast Asian interdisciplinary knowledge community on critical geoengineering studies Laurence L. Delina 1 Received: 17 April 2020 / Accepted: 28 October 2020 / Published online: 10 November 2020 # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract
Geoengineering has generally been a research province of the Global North. Developing countries, especially climate-vulnerable regions such as Southeast Asia, have made few contributions to a critical understanding of geoengineering. To deliver more climate action, we need to amplify Global South voices in this debate. This essay summarizes the deliberations of a workshop that sought to build an inter- and multi-disciplinary knowledge community on the critical study of geoengineering in Southeast Asia. Held in Indonesia, this workshop involved discussions among 17 social science researchers, climate modelers, environmental policy analysts, and civil society actors from the region. On the basis of in-depth discussions, research themes were developed to help guide future geoengineering research in Southeast Asia. These themes included: biochar techniques for carbon capture and storage; expansive modeling of regional impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection, especially for transboundary water bodies; national and regional governance implications of carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management; and critical social study of these technologies. The workshop participants called for support for regional research on geoengineering through new funding opportunities and increased international collaboration. Keywords Geoengineering . Global South . Southeast Asia . Climate change . Interdisciplinary knowledge community
1 Introduction Knowledge produced by climate-vulnerable countries in the Global South has to be integrated into the research on climate intervention technologies. From modeling the potential and risks
* Laurence L. Delina [email protected]
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Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
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Climatic Change (2020) 163:973–987
of these technologies to understanding their ethics to designing governance systems, a geoengineering epistemic community has to be enabled, built, and strengthened in developing countries, including in Southeast Asia. This region—comprised of the continental countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaysia and the archipelagic countries of Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines—has a key stake in geoengineering discourse since it faces multiple severe impacts from accelerating climate change. From stronger typhoons and cyclones to intense rainfall and strong winds to prolonged El Niño to forest fires, climate change impacts may devastate the region’s agriculture and fisheries (Marlier et al. 2015; Gaveau et al. 2016; Koplitz et al. 2016). Although Southeast Asian expert communities have already been established to study climate science and governance for both adaptation and mitigation strategies (e.g.
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