POLITICO: “Behind Closed Doors, the Politics of Solar Geoengineering Are Shifting”

This article pulls from comments made by attendees of a workshop cohosted by Resources for the Future.

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Date

Sept. 23, 2026

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Media Highlight

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POLITICO

“But with the surge of Silicon Valley investment into solar geoengineering startups like Stardust Solutions, the prospect of limiting sunlight has moved from theoretical to possible, said [Cynthia] Scharf, who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Future Generations, a Brussels-based think tank.

‘That conversation is shifting—shifting mostly behind closed doors,’ she said at a September 11 solar geoengineering workshop in Washington organized by the environmental group Resources for the Future and Harvard University.”

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