This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

Written and edited by the WorldPing NewsdeskPublished Updated Original reporting: MIT Tech Review

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A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal.

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  • Reported by MIT Tech Review and published Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:00:00 UTC.

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