The Blue Cooling Initiative is about buying time for humanity to bring our ways of living in harmony with the earth’ carrying capacity. We want to achieve this by temporarily cooling the planet via a technology called Marine Cloud Brightening. BCI contributes to the technical development and political/societal acceptance of MCB. BCI wants to deliver the evidence MCB is possible and governable using nature-based solutions. We acquire funds for technical development & organize societal/political landing creating coalitions between scientists, politicians, NGO’s, businesses and the public.
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Marine Cloud Brightening can be applied locally and its effects can be adapted almost instantaneously when needed and is therefore the safest of all solar radiation management techniques.
The Blue Cooling Initiative aims – together with scientists from well-known research institutes and the experienced team of sustainability advocates – at catalysing both the technical development and the political/societal acceptance of Marine Cloud Brightening.
Reduce global warming by reflecting more sunlight back into space with Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB)by stimulating the natural process of sea spray to increase the reflectivity of marine stratocumulus clouds>1 kilometer in the atmosphere.
One way may be found in the science of Solar Radiation Management: reduce global warming by reflecting more sunlight back into space. And within the range of techniques in this field, we find a promising one: Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB). With MCB we use the natural process of sea spray to increase the reflectivity of marine stratocumulus clouds.
Marine Cloud Brightening can be applied locally and its effects can be adapted almost immediately when causing harm.
The Blue Cooling Initiative aims – together with scientists from well-known research institutes and the experienced team of sustainability advocates – at catalysing both the technical development and the political/societal acceptance of Marine Cloud Brightening.
On the other hand, the experienced team of sustainability advocates Wouter van Dieren (Club of Rome and coalition builder) and Hans van der Loo (Think Tank chairman and diplomacy coordinator) and coalition builders. Their activities will be supervised by a board of young and enthusiastic scientists and strategists from countries most affected by climate change and be measured along the ruler of the Oxford Principles for Geo-engineering.