Reflecting sunlight away from earth could fight climate change and poverty

Friday, January 17, 2020

Stormy skies on a horizon
As the world's experts race to find ways to combat climate change, new findings reveal that an experimental process to redirect the sun's energy could mitigate both climate change and global income inequality.

Appearing in Nature Communications, Juan Moreno-Cruz, a professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, worked with an international team of transdisciplinary researchers, including Anthony Hardin and Katharine Ricke of UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy, who lead the study