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The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has commissioned an interdisciplinary consortium of experts from the field of natural science, law, conomics, politics, sociology and ethics to provide a comprehensive report on recent scientific knowledge related to climate engineering. The experts conducted six disciplinary reports and one integrative interdisciplinary report. The Kiel Earth Institute, as member of the project team, coordinated and published the report. These reports constitute the first comprehensive reports on the subject of climate engineering published in Germany. Due to its broad interdisciplinary approach, they provide a more comprehensive coverage of the subject than previous reports that have shaped scientific and political debates. These reports will serve to provide a broad, well-founded basis for the political opinion-forming and decision-making process, and also for communicating the subject to the public.

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www.climate-engineering.eu

A new news portal on Climate Engineering went online on September 30, 2011

www.climate-engineering.eu

The platform is an initiative of the Kiel Earth Institute in cooperation with the Marsilius Colleg of the University of Heidelberg.

GLUES

GLUES is a consortium of project partners for the scientific coordination and synthesis of the BMBF "Sustainable Land Use Management" program.
The "Sustainable Land Management" program supports regional research projects. These projects work in different regions world-wide while being connected through international research programs.
The GLUES project aims to support the international cross-disciplinary collaboration of research projects dealing with the issue of land use, greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services. (Photo: Gernot Klepper)

LUC Indonesien Peatland

Colloquium Climate Engineering: Colloquium on Climate Engineering: Challenges for Research, Assessment and Governance
Presentation and discussion of a planned application for a DFG-Priority Programme
in Kiel on September 17, 2010

An interdisciplinary group of researchers is planning to apply for a Priority Programme of the German Research Foundation to investigate under what conditions Climate Engineering could be feasible, beneficial and justifiable. The focus of this meeting is to present the current state of the proposal and to open the discussion for suggestions and participation of other researchers.

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Iron Fertilization

Ocean Iron Fertilization: A Curse or a Blessing?

Press Release, 15th December 2009

Ocean iron fertilization (OIF) is generally considered to constitute a potential geoengineering method with which to sequester more CO₂ in the oceans and thus mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change. (Photo: NASA)

Kiel Earth Institute at the 1st Hamburg Climate Week

On September 19, 2009 the First Hamburg Climate Week opened the United Nations Global Climate Week. The Kiel Earth Institute in cooperation with the Kiel Institute participated as one out of 40 protagonists to inform the public on climate change.

The Kiel Earth Institute

The Kiel Earth Institute is a virtual research institution concerned with key issues of global change and their socio-economical consequences.
Globalisation of economic activities, the scarcity of natural resources, and environmental change are challenges all modern societies have to face.
The Kiel Earth Institute aims to develop practical solutions addressing these challenges and communicating them to society.

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The idea for KEI emerged from an intensive cooperation between the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) within the scope of the cluster of excellence “The Future Ocean”. Bringing together research and decision-making for societal needs in the area of global change is the main task for KEI.

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