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Date and Location
Crystal Nayiga
Join the Harvard Center for International Development (CID) for our special Earth Day Friday Speaker Series, featuring updates from CID's GEM Incubation Fund recipient Ines Camilloni. This event will explore the critical topics of climate data equity, conflict fragility, and pioneering research on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Buenos Aires project focuses on the feasibility and impacts of SRM, specifically through Stratospheric Aerosol injection (SAI), as a climate intervention strategy for mitigating urban climate risks. Buenos Aires, a megacity with over 14 million residents, is increasingly vulnerable to climate-related threats such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and coastal flooding. This study, the first of its kind in a Latin American urban context, employs the ARISE-SAI-1.5 climate model to assess how SAI could influence extreme temperatures and precipitation in Buenos Aires compared to a future without SRM.
Ines Camilloni is a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Senior Researcher at CIMA. She is Vice-Chair of the IPCC’s Working Group I and serves on several international scientific committees, including UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. The discussion will be moderated by Joseph Aldy, an economist and professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Speakers and Presenters
Inés Camilloni, Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and Senior Researcher of CIMA;
Joe Aldy, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government