A new UN report lays out an ethical framework for climate engineering
The framework could guide the study and deployment of technologies to mitigate climate change
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In 2021, researchers studying the possibility of releasing aerosols to cool the climate planned a test flight of a stratospheric balloon, such as the one shown, from the Esrange Space Center in Sweden. The launch was canceled due to objections from environmentalists, scientists and Indigenous groups.
Sweden Space Corporation