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EU Launches €35 Million Tender to Detect Rogue Solar Radiation Modification Efforts
WHY IT MATTERS
The EU’s funding signals a proactive stance to monitor and mitigate potential climate‑engineering threats that could destabilise global weather patterns and international relations.
What happened
The European Union has issued a €35 million call through its Horizon Europe research programme to fund projects that can identify and monitor attempts to alter the planet’s atmosphere by blocking sunlight. The initiative is an early‑stage effort to coordinate research on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), a nascent and controversial technology that could be used to cool the Earth.
By funding detection and coordination work, the EU aims to prevent unregulated or clandestine SRM activities that could have unpredictable climatic and geopolitical consequences.
The call invites proposals that develop monitoring tools, risk assessment frameworks, and international cooperation mechanisms to safeguard against rogue SRM experiments.
PRIMARY SOURCES
EU wants to track potential rogue efforts to block out the sun
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CORRECTIONS & UPDATES
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