Global Sustainability Governance
In the Media
2024
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10 April
Still und heimlich starten Forscher den Versuch, unsere Erde abzukühlen.
Interviewed by Focus (Germany). Direct link here.
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6-7 April 2024
Dimlicht voor de aarde – of een stoplicht?
Interviewed for Dutch national newspaper NRC by Laura Wismans. Online access here.
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8 March 2024
Background interview on the negotiations around the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly
Wall Street Journal.
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27 February 2024
Background interview on climate policy and geoengineering
British Broadcasting Corporation
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22 February
Live radio interview on the negotiations around the United Nations Environment Assembly
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (ARD)
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24 January
Interview on climate policy
Eirini Sotiropoulou of the Greek investigative journalism Inside Story
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2023
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14 December
Interview on climate policy
Epsiloon (French science magazine).
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27 November
Interview on climate tipping points
RND Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland
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11 October
​To avert climate disaster, what if one rogue nation dimmed the sun?
Interviewed by BBC. Direct link here.
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21 September
De Sustainable Development Goals van de VN hebben een update nodig - in gesprek met onderzoeker Frank Biermann.
Radio interview with Dutch NPO Radio 1 NTR. Direct link here.
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19 September
Interviewed for German national TV programme Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF).
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18 September
UN Sustainable Development Goals in spotlight at General Assembly.
Interviewed Brian Osgood by Al Jazeera. Direct open link here.
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18 September
Interviewed by nature magazine Roots.
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18 September
Geen van de Duurzame Ontwikkelingsdoelen van de VN lijkt te gaan worden behaald: wat te doen?
Interviewed by Thom Canters in De Volkskrant. Direct open link here.
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17​ September
Sleutelen aan het klimaat: dé oplossing of het begin van het einde?
Interviewed by Bart Rutten in Nieuwsuur (national news programme NOS). Link here.
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16 September
Hitteschilden, witte wolken, een 'sluier' om de aarde af te koelen. Willen we dat?
Interviewed by Daan Marselis in Trouw. Article here.
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​14 September (print)
The world’s goals for saving humanity are still the best option. Now it is time for everyone to double down on work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Interviewed for, and cited in, editorial by Nature. Link here.
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14 September
Verduisteren van de zon.
Television report by Dutch TV news station NOS NTR. Online here. (minutes 20 to 27)
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1 September
Climate engineering: a quick fix or a risky distraction?
Interviewed by Financial Times. Direct link here.
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24 August
Zonlicht tegenhouden op grote hoogte is steeds minder taboe.
Interviewed in De Morgen (Belgium). PDF here.
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23 July
Deze drie steenrijke broers sponsoren klimaatonderzoek, en zij zijn niet de enigen.
Interviewed in Dutch national paper Trouw by Maarten van Gestel. Link (paywalled) here.
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8 July
Solar-Geo-Engineering als letzter Ausweg gegen den Klimawandel?
Live radio interview on the dangers of geoengineering in RadioEins, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in the morning science programme Die Profis with Stephan Karkowsky. Link here.
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5 July
Forscher wollen Sonne verdunkeln - was hinter dem umstrittenen Klima-Plan steckt
Interviewed by Focus (Germany) on the dangers of geoengineering. Direct link here.
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4 July
La déviation des rayons du soleil, une idée qui inquiète Bruxelles
Interviewed by LesEchos. Direct link here.
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30 June
Billionaires want to save the world. What’s so wrong with that?
Interviewed by Andrew Hunter Murray in Financial Times, 30 June 2023. Open access link here. PDF here.
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30 June
We can’t engineer ourselves out of the climate crisis
Cited in The Next Web (a Financial Times company). Direct link here.
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28 June
European Commission calls for international discussions on risks of climate engineering
Interviewed for EuroNews. Live video here.
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12 June
The Overshoot Commission is talking about solar geoengineering. Not everyone thinks it should
Interviewed for article by Climate Home News. Direct link here.
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2 June
Mensheid belast de aarde de veel
Interviewed on earth system boundaries for Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Link here.
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31 May
‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study
Interviewed on concept of planetary boundaries in CarbonBrief. Link here.
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15 April
Mit Mondstaub die Sonne verdunkeln? Das macht sogar Klimaforschern Angst
Interviewed in Focus magazine. Link here.
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20 March
Zonlicht blokkeren: onbespreekbaar of laatste redmiddel voor het klimaat?
Interviewed in Dutch media site NU.nl. Link here.
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17 March
A Controversial Technology Is Creating an Unprecedented Rift Among Climate Scientists
Interviewed in Time magazine by Alejandro de la Garza. Link here.
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16 March
Tánaiste meets UN chief to talk peacekeeping, Ukraine and sustainable development
Interviewed by RTÉ, Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster. Direct link here.
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6 March
Inside the high-stakes battle over dimming the sun’s light to cool the planet
Interviewed by Boston Globe by Sabrina Shankman. Direct link here.
February
Geknutsel aan de natuur verdeelt de wetenschap
Interviewed for Trouw by Maarten van Gestel
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28 February
De zon dimmen? Wetenschappers willen meer onderzoek klimaatinterventies
Interviewed in NOS Nieuwsuur by Marijn Duintjer Tebbens. Direct link here.
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27 February
Efforts to block sunlight get boost from prominent scientists
Cited in ClimateWire. Link here.
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20 February
Interviewed by Joris Tielens for NEMO Kennislink
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15 February
Red het klimaat, installeer buitenaardse zonwering
De Standaard (Belgium), interviewed by Senne Starckx. Link here. PDF here.
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12 February
This controversial climate solution could be exactly what the planet needs. Or it could be a colossal disaster
Cable News Network (CNN). Interviewed by Laura Paddison. Direct link here.
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9 February
A solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers say
The Guardian, citing my comments. Direct link here.
Covered in 360Magazine, Berliner Zeitung, Business Insider, Canada Today, HLN, Ouest France, and many others.
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8 February
With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research
Cited in Reuters. Direct link here.
Covered in The Jakarta Post and other outlets.
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28 January
Verdensmål har ændret den politiske diskurs – men de har skabt meget få forandringer
Interviewed by the Danish political weekly Mandagmorgen about the impact of the SDGs. Link here.
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12 January
Pathways to sustainability
Roundtable interview for business magazine Management Scope (with Prof. Rick van der Ploeg, Amsterdam/Oxford, & Sandra Phlippen, chief economist ABN AMRO).
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11 January
The debate over blocking the sun to counter climate change
The New York Times, citing my work. Direct link here.
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January
Kunnen we in 2023 het klimaat fixen?
Interviewed by NOS, Dutch national radio
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January
Mag dat: draaien aan de thermostaat van onze aarde? Geo-engineering: een omstreden noodrem bij oververhitting.
Interview with education magazine NVOX: Magazine voor het Onderwijs in Natuurwetenschappen (2023/1). PDF here.
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11 January
Fire in the Hole
Interviewed by Katrina Megget for Chemistry & Industry Magazine (issue 1). PDF here.
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2022
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25 December
Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast
Interviewed by Oliver Milman in The Guardian. Link here.
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28 November
Interviewed by Andrew Freedman, Axios
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25 November
China noemt zich ontwikkelingsland. Valse bescheidenheid of eigenbelang?
Interview in Trouw. Online here; PDFs here and here.
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23 November
Scientists increasingly calling to dim the sun.
Futurism (Canada)
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22 November
Dimming the sun to cool the planet is a desperate idea, yet we’re inching toward it
Interviewed by Bill McKibben in The New Yorker. Link here.
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17 November
Tempting solution: cool the planet artificially
Cited in Swiss Info.com. Link here.
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12 November
Knutselen aan het klimaat.
Cited by Joris Heijn in lead article in Elseviers Weekblad (vol. 78, no. 45). Link here.
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27 September
Wereldbankbaas onder vuur na opmerkingen over klimaatcrisis.
Interviewed by Annelies Roon over climate-skeptical comments by David Malpass, in Dutch national paper Trouw. Link here.
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17 September
Geen regen? Dan maken we die
Interviewed in Volkskrant about weather modification. PDFs here, here, and here.
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28 August
Tegenlicht
Interviewed by Amanda Verdonk in Dutch Research Council magazine Onderzoek. Link here.
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22 June
Duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelen: veel gepraat, weinig actie.
De Wereld Morgen
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20 June
Voor een betere wereld zorgen de ontwikkelingsdoelen van de VN nog niet.
Interview over the effects of the SDGs by Hans Nauta in Dutch national paper Trouw. Link here.
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20 June
Klima, Tierschutz, Nachhaltigkeit: Studie offenbart den großen UN-Selbstbetrug.
Interviewed about the SDGs in the German national magazine Focus. Link here.
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20 June
Report: UN global development goals have not changed policies.
Courthouse News Service
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2 June
Fighting climate change through solar geoengineering is a bad idea, scientists warn.
Interviewed by Olivia Rosane in Treehugger: Sustainability for All. Link here.
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22 April
Blocking the sun is a risky gambit for fighting climate change.
The Daily Beast
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1 February
Solar geoengineering can deflect from climate control efforts, say scientists
Interviewed by Vaneisa Baksh in UWI Today (University of the West Indies magazine). Link here.
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1 February
Sonnengott spielen: Radikale Ideen gegen den Klimawandel erhitzen die Gemüter
Interviewed in Neue Zürcher Zeitung by Kalina Oroschakoff. Link here.
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24 January
Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists
Interviewed for Mongabay by Shanna Hanbury. Link here.
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20 January
Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, But These Experts Want To Stop It
Interviewed in Forbes by David Vetter. Link here.
20 January
Researchers seek global ban on sun-dimming technologies
Cited in Research Professional News. Link here.
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20 January
La géo-ingénierie solaire ne sauvera pas le climat, stoppons-la
Cited in Reporterre. Link here.
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19 January
Coalizão global de cientistas pede Acordo Internacional de Não-Uso de Geoengenharia Solar
Cited in Nidde Digital Notícias da Bahia. Link here.
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17 January
After sun-dimming setback, geoengineers seek a diplomatic fix
Cited by Thomson Reuters Foundation. Link here.
Covered by Yahoo!, Japan Times, World Republic News and others
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17 January
De zon blokkeren? Een gevaarlijk idee', zeggen klimaatwetenschappers.
Linda
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17 January
Solar Geoengineering: Wissenschaftler fordern internationales Abkommen
Cited by Deutschlandfunk
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17 January
Wissenschaftler warnen vor Folgen von technischen Methoden zur Abkühlung der Erdoberfläche
Cited in NAU.CH. Link here.
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17 January
Kritik an Plänen, die Sonne zu beeinflussen
Cited in Deutschlandfunk Nova. Link here.
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17 January
In Major Move, Global Coalition Pushes for Moratorium on Solar Geoengineering
Cited in Science: The Wire. Link here.
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17 January
Dimming Sun's rays should be off-limits, say experts
Cited by France 24, covered in Phys.org, Florida News Times, Yahoo News, Jamaica Observer and others. Link here.
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Interviews and media citations before 2022 are not online.
