Geoengineering to Alter Climate Change Moves Closer to Reality, Report Says

摘要

A United Nations body is investigating methods to avert runaway climate change by allowing the Earth's oceans and atmosphere to be re-engineered. So-called geoengineering is seen as necessary to achieve the COP21 Paris agreement clinched in December, when 197 countries pledged to keep global temperatures rises below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), according to researchers who produced a report for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.