The Republic of the Congo begins its first SRM study 👏 Roy Dorgeless Ngakala and his team will examine how SRM and global warming could affect local fisheries and the Congolese Upwelling System. 👉 youtu.be/RTvIq73zK_k #Congo #SRM #Oceans #GlobalSouth

Morocco receives Degrees funding for its first SRM study 👏 Alongside his team, Dr Victor Ongoma will assess how SRM might affect heat and rainfall extremes across North Africa 👉 youtu.be/Wf0B-mAfiik #Morocco #SRM #ClimateChange #GlobalSouth

Jordan launches its first SRM project with Degrees funding 👏 Prof. Jawad Al-Bakri and team will explore how SRM could influence crop productivity and water-scarce agriculture in arid conditions 👉 youtu.be/K_0RxIoug5E #Jordan #SRM #ClimateScience #GlobalSouth

We’ve funded four new research teams from Cabo Verde, Jordan, Morocco and the Republic of the Congo to conduct their country’s first-ever SRM study 👏 Read more 👇 www.degrees.ngo/four-new-cou... Watch this space for more details on each project in the coming days. #SRM #ClimateChange #GlobalSouth

“Climate-intervention research will move forward somewhere. The choice is whether we help steer it or simply endure its outcomes.” - Degrees-funded researcher Kwesi A. Quagraine on the need for Africa to be at the table in climate engineering decisions 👉 www.graphic.com.gh/news/general...

☀️Celebrating 50 peer-reviewed papers from Degrees-funded scientists exploring how SRM could affect the world physically, socially & politically. From Mexico to Benin, researchers across the Global South are leading the way in SRM science & governance 👉https://www.degrees.ngo/50-paper-milestone/

Read DSG’s latest post on the workshop we co-hosted this month in Latin America. The opportunity allowed government representatives to come together to engage in a multilateral negotiation simulation, aided by @degrees.ngo researchers from the region. bit.ly/435v2Nq

For the first time, Degrees-funded modelling & social science teams met in Bogotá, CO to explore SRM science & governance in the LAC region, marking a key step toward collaborative, holistic SRM research. www.degrees.ngo/second-lac-w...

@newscientist.com reports on a survey showing many climate scientists expect large-scale efforts to block radiation from the sun by 2100. Incl. quotes from our CEO Andy Parker and funded researcher Ines Camilloni 👉 www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Could solar geoengineering help or harm the Amazon? Our Marcos Regis da Silva will be part of a live discussion of the topic on 28 October – sign up to watch the debate via @srm360.bsky.social: srm360.org/event/could-...

🌍 The Degrees Global Forum report is out! 300 people from 49 countries made this the biggest SRM event to date. Swipe for highlights and download the report below: www.degrees.ngo/wp-content/u... #DGF2025 #Solargeoengineering

Another well-deserved success: Degrees researcher Dr Frederic Bonou has won the 2025 Africa Award for Research Excellence in Earth or Ocean Sciences from the American Geophysical Union 👏 🌍 > www.agu.org/honors/afric...

📢 We're hiring for a Policy Engagement Manager, Asia. They will strengthen the voice of the Global South in discussions on solar geoengineering / SRM research and governance with relevance to Asia by connecting experts to policy processes. Apply by 19th October 2025: www.degrees.ngo/careers/job-...

Congratulations to Romaric C. Odoulami on being named one of @forbes.com's Sustainability Leaders 2025! 👏 🌱 He has co-led 3 Degrees Modelling Fund projects, secured $1.5 million from @simonsfoundation.org, and co-launched the African Climate Intervention Research Hub. www.forbes.com/sites/elisab...

“Africa must move from passive recipient to active leader in SRM research, governance and public engagement.” 🌍African scientists who started work on the topic through Degrees grants have delivered a bold and timely message in Nature: 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02420-z

Congratulations to our teams in Jamaica, Nigeria, Uganda and Mali, who have received extensions to their grants 👏 Their projects include the impact of solar radiation modification (SRM) on renewable energy, crop yields, rain-fed agriculture and droughts. Read more: www.degrees.ngo/continuation...

👏 Congratulations to Amadou Coulibaly, new Director of WASCALS's Climate Change & Agriculture Graduate Programme in Mali 🇲🇱 He leads a Degrees-funded SRM project on droughts in West Africa and is bringing this work into the classroom. Watch an interview with him below 📹 youtu.be/FpbEyW-2v-4

Congratulations to the 14 Degrees-funded researchers who will help produce the next @ipcc.bsky.social climate report 👏They come from varied research backgrounds, and have added SRM studies to their work as the topic gains more interest around the world 🌍 Read more > www.degrees.ngo/ipcc-ar7-con...

👏 Congratulations to Helene Muri on her election to Norway’s Academy of Technological Sciences! She’s volunteered with Degrees since 2018—supporting Global South modelling teams and reviewing proposals. Grateful for her ongoing support! https://ntva.no/aktuelt/nyhetsbrev/nye-medlemmer-i-ntva

📢 We're hiring! Join Degrees as our new Policy Engagement Assistant—help strengthen Global South capacity and advance fairer, more inclusive governance of solar geoengineering. 🗓️Apply by 31 August 🌐 Remote (UK) 🔗 https://www.degrees.ngo/careers/job-opportunity-policy-engagement-assistant/

The first paper from our Socio-Political fund teams has been published 👏 Maria Ines Carabajal and co from Argentina studied the response to a solar geoengineering stunt in Mexico, recommending ways forward for governance across the Latin American and Caribbean region: www.degrees.ngo/srm-mexico-g...

🌍 In our latest newsletter, we reflect on the largest SRM gathering to date, #DGF2025 — key takeaways, featured content, and what’s next for the SRM field. 📬 Read the update here: https://mailchi.mp/degrees/degrees-update-building-a-global-community

🌡️ Extreme heat is one of the most dangerous climate risks. Could solar geoengineering help, or make things worse? Join @srm360.bsky.social for a live panel discussing this important topic. 📆 29 July - 14:00 UTC. 🔗 Register here: srm360.org/event/making...

📣 Job opportunity - we're hiring for a Digital Communications Officer! 🧑‍💻 Love communicating complex topics and are handy with tools like Canva, Premiere Pro, LinkedIn and WordPress? Join us at the intersection of climate change and international development: www.degrees.ngo/careers/job-...

"We're broadening the tent, but we have more to do." - Rose Mutiso 🌍 Participants at the Degrees Global Forum 2025 reflected on widening the solar geoengineering debate, bringing in new voices, and the work ahead. Watch the video below👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZw...

🌍 #DGF2025 put the Global South at the centre of the SRM debate. Our partner @uclalawemmett.bsky.social ‬'s Prof. Ted Parson reflects on these landmark conversations in a new piece: https://legal-planet.org/2025/07/09/a-landmark-geoengineering-conversation-in-the-global-south/

🥳 Huge congratulations to Degrees' Chair Oliver Morton (@eaterofsun.bsky.social)‬ for winning the @absw.bsky.social award for Opinion Piece or Editorial of the Year for his article 'A place to talk about cooling the Earth' in @economist.com: www.economist.com/the-world-ah...

Is geoengineering research becoming more mainstream? @newscientist.com investigated, incl. our CEO Andy Parker: “We’ve got no position on whether SRM is ever used or not. But we do think that developing countries need an informed voice to do their own research.” www.newscientist.com/article/2483...

Last week, our @jreynolds.org .org presented at a meeting of the @belmontforum.bsky.social, where we have just become an observer member. We look forward to working with the Forum to advance its mission of accelerating environmental change research 🤝 belmontforum.org

🎧 Listen to the latest Cleaning Up Podcast - recorded at #DGF2025! Bryony Worthington interviewed Thelma Krug about all things climate - including solar geoengineering and how research is crucial, especially in the Global South 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTJD...

It's been one month since the Degrees Global Forum - what were your takeaways? Watch our wrap-up video to relive some of the best moments 👇 #DGF2025 youtu.be/0HtDByWMyjY

Shaping the future of SRM research for a shared future—A few highlights from yesterday’s event that we co-organised with Reflective on the sidelines of TED Countdown, Nairobi 🌍

Congratulations Bob Alex Ogwang, Alex Nimusiima and team for their paper 'Implications of Solar Radiation Modification on Rainfall and Temperature Patterns over Eastern Africa'. It also marks the 40th published paper supported by our modelling fund! 🥳 www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/16...

Last week at a workshop on #SRM hosted by @unep.org and ‪@wmo-global.bsky.social, nearly half the speakers were our funded researchers, from both our modelling and socio-political teams - bringing globally diverse experts to science-policy dialogues at the highest level: www.unep.org/events/works...

🚨One week left to apply! We're hiring for two roles: www.degrees.ngo/careers/ Programmes Officer - help award grants, support funded teams and assess impact Scientific Writing and Publishing Lead - support teams to publish their research, lead on scientific reports and support communications

"If we're going to continue engaging with SRM seriously, then how we engage with people - outside this room, past our disciplines, and beyond our datasets – matters just as much as what we're researching." Trisha Patel - Inaugural Saleemul Huq prize winner, closing #DGF2025 🌍

Matthew Henr discussing cutting-edge science at #DGF2025 session on the cryosphere. Experts explored strategies to cool the Arctic—from marine cloud brightening and cloud seeding to ice sheet interventions. 🧊

Great energy in yesterday's #DGF2025 session discussing SRM experiments. Lively World Cafe style conversations explored hypothetical case studies from SAI to sea-ice thickening—unpacking the science, governance, and regional realities.

"In sustainable development, one thing I've learnt is that there is this kind of dance between evidence, people and political systems. I think managing that balance is something that SRM can learn from development."—Rose Mutiso #DGF2025 🌍

"The real risk is not research, but ignorance."—African researchers clarify their position on solar geoengineering and defend the right to inquiry by Africans for Africa. Read the full statement: https://www.degrees.ngo/african-scientists-respond-misrepresentations-solar-geoengineering-research/

Great conversations brewing at the first poster session today at #DGF2025 >>> two more to come!

Portia Adade Williams—"Funding drives our research agenda and our ability to respond to challenges. But 78% of funding from 1990-2020 on climate change in Africa went to institutions in the Global North. We need to fund local research." #DGF2025

As the Degrees Global Forum opens today, @degrees.ngo CEO Andy Parker reflects on 14 years of building Global South SRM research capacity—and what’s next. 🔗: buff.ly/1ELf0EZ #SolarGeoengineering #DGF2025

Let’s go! 🚀 #DGF2025 kicking off today in Cape Town—the world’s largest-ever forum on solar radiation modification and the first held in Africa. Over 330 participants from 30+ countries are here to shape the global conversation on the science, equity, and governance of SRM.

Coming to #DGF2025 and need to brush up on your SAIs and MCBs, and understand where SRM fits into the wider climate conversation? @peteirvine.bsky.social from @srm360.bsky.social and @eaterofsun.bsky.social will be running an 'SRM101' on Tuesday morning: degreesglobalforum.org/sessions/srm...

✈️ We're off to #DGF2025! Whether you're attending the @degrees.ngo Global Forum or following from afar, we've got you covered with reactions, insights, and updates. 📢 Follow us here and subscribe to receive our daily recap emails: buff.ly/rKQw3LQ #SolarGeoengineering

@aria-research.bsky.social has awarded Degrees & partners £2m over three years to create an open-access repository of detailed Global South climate data. Our Andy Parker will lead the team alongside @danvisioni.bsky.social, Babatunde Abiodun and Chris Lennard www.degrees.ngo/aria-funding/

6 days til #DGF2025! Our partners at Reflective will have a booth where you can explore and feedback on their new SAI Simulator, in which users can design custom SO2 injection schemes by amount and latitude and visualise effects on temperature and water availability: calendly.com/reflective-i...

One week til #DGF2025!! New initiatives working in SRM will introduce themselves, incl @srm360.bsky.social, @greenafricayouth.bsky.social, @wcrpclimate.bsky.social Lighthouse Activity, SRM Youth Watch, Co-CREATE, Reflective, @sgdeliberation.bsky.social, Operaatio Arktis & @cfg-thinktank.bsky.social

10 days until #DGF2025! Can't make it, or want to be in three sessions at once? Our media partners @srm360.bsky.social will be providing daily updates during the Forum - sign up here: srm360.activehosted.com/f/21