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Clara Botto

Clara Botto

Director of Outreach at the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG) and PhD student at the University of Cambridge researching participatory governance of climate intervention technologies.

Aug 7, 2026

11:01
But could you give us a better idea? For those who have not heard that before, what we could define that as?
11:05
Sure.
11:06
So the most researched one is called stratospheric aerosol injection.
11:10
I think it's also the one that scares people the most.
11:14
And as the name says, you're basically injecting aerosols in the stratosphere, mostly sulfur dioxide.
11:23
I think that's the one that's been researched the most.
11:25
And what that does is basically reflect solar radiation away from We know that works because volcanoes, when there's a big volcanic eruption that happens, the aerosols that go all the way up there to the stratosphere, they cool down the planet.

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