Fifteen Years of Controversy on Solar Geoengineering in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia

This article provides an analysis of the academic controversy concerning research on solar geoengineering technologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia since 2006. It reviews the main themes in the academic controversy regarding solar geoengineering: risk management, the economics of solar geoengineering, justice and equity, and geopolitics. Further, the article identifies three main groups of scholars: resolute adversaries, reluctant supporters of research, and ecomodernists who are optimistic about the prospects of solar geoengineering.