Agriculture in West Africa in the twenty-first century: climate change and impacts scenarios, and potential for adaptation

B Sultan, M Gaetani - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

Potential effects of climate change and solar radiation modification on renewable energy resources

A Kumler, B Kravitz, C Draxl, L Vimmerstedt… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Solar radiation modification (SRM) is a possible deliberate approach to decrease or reflect
incoming solar radiation with the goal of reducing global temperatures, which have …

An overview of the Earth system science of solar geoengineering

PJ Irvine, B Kravitz, MG Lawrence… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Solar geoengineering has been proposed as a means to cool the Earth by increasing the
reflection of sunlight back to space, for example, by injecting reflective aerosol particles (or …

[BOEK][B] The governance of solar geoengineering: Managing climate change in the Anthropocene

JL Reynolds - 2019 - books.google.com
Climate change is among the world's most important problems, and solutions based on
emission cuts or adapting to new climates remain elusive. One set of proposals receiving …

Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening

G Feingold, VP Ghate, LM Russell, P Blossey… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is the deliberate injection of aerosol particles into shallow
marine clouds to increase their reflection of solar radiation and reduce the amount of energy …

Hydrological consequences of solar geoengineering

K Ricke, JS Wan, M Saenger… - Annual review of earth …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
As atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise and climate change becomes more
destructive, geoengineering has become a subject of serious consideration. By reflecting a …

Human rights and precautionary principle: limits to geoengineering, SRM, and IPCC scenarios

J Wieding, J Stubenrauch, F Ekardt - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Most scenarios on instruments limiting global warming in line with the 1.5° C temperature
limit of the Paris Agreement rely on overshooting the emissions threshold, thus requiring the …

Solar geoengineering can alleviate climate change pressures on crop yields

Y Fan, J Tjiputra, H Muri, D Lombardozzi, CE Park… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
Solar geoengineering (SG) and CO 2 emissions reduction can each alleviate anthropogenic
climate change, but their impacts on food security are not yet fully understood. Using an …

Towards a comprehensive climate impacts assessment of solar geoengineering

PJ Irvine, B Kravitz, MG Lawrence, D Gerten… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a growing literature on the climate response to solar geoengineering—proposals to
cool the planet by increasing the planetary albedo—there has been little published on the …

[HTML][HTML] Projected changes in crop yield mean and variability over West Africa in a world 1.5 K warmer than the pre-industrial era

B Parkes, D Defrance, B Sultan, P Ciais… - Earth System …, 2018 - esd.copernicus.org
The ability of a region to feed itself in the upcoming decades is an important issue. The West
African population is expected to increase significantly in the next 30 years. The responses …