Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. Thelma Krug, spoke at the 2022 Americas Conference on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) hosted at The UWI Regional Headquarters in August 2022.

The conference, organised by the Inter-American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research, was themed “Science, Governance, and Implications for the Region”.

Presentations were made on current work and research as well as future possibilities in the Americas and across the globe. With the level and nature of climate threats faced by Small Island States of the Caribbean, SRM is a proposed response to some of the risks but cannot be considered an alternative to emissions reductions or adaptation.

The conference was a collaborative effort by the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (C2G); the Degrees Initiative (formerly the SRM Governance Initiative); the Inter- American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research and The UWI, with support from the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).