In April 2017, Jinnah was awarded a Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to pursue her research on governance of climate (geo)engineering. Her project will build an institutional framework for the international governance of climate engineering and will make specific policy recommendations on this topic across scales. She also works on this topic as a member of the Academic Working Group on International Governance of Climate Engineering through the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment (FCEA), as well as sitting on FCEA's Board of Advisors
Andrew Carnegie Fellows receive support that allows them to focus on research and writing projects that address pressing issues. Jinnah was awarded $200,000 to fund her proposal, "Global Governance of Climate (Geo)Engineering'' which will address the political challenges surrounding governance of emerging technologies designed to address climate change.
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Andrew Carnegie Fellows receive support that allows them to focus on research and writing projects that address pressing issues. Jinnah was awarded $200,000 to fund her proposal, "Global Governance of Climate (Geo)Engineering'' which will address the political challenges surrounding governance of emerging technologies designed to address climate change.
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ongoing projects
Jinnah, Sikina. 2018. "Why Govern Climate Engineering?: Towards a Framework for Demand-Based Governance" International Studies Review.
This paper examines the diverse rationales being advanced in a growing academic literature on the demand for governance of an emerging technology — climate engineering – that currently lacks adequate formal governance structures of its own. In this paper, drivers of demand for climate engineering governance are identified and a preliminary framework for mapping drivers of governance demand onto architectural forms for global governance is proposed.
Jinnah, Sikina and Simon Nicholson. “Governing Climate Engineering: Engagement, Institutions, and Ethics." Manuscript in preparation.
This article introduces a special issue on climate engineering governance. The special issue is currently under review at Environmental Politics.
Nicholson, Simon, Sikina Jinnah, and Alexander Gillespie. 2018. “Solar Radiation Management: A proposal for immediate polycentric governance.” Climate Politics.
This paper looks at international governance pathways for so-called Solar Radiation Management (SRM) technologies. It is argued that near-term, anticipatory governance of this suite of technologies is called for, given their potentially world-altering power. Solar Radiation Management is disaggregated according to its many features, to indicate that there are many places in the international system that lend themselves to discussion of SRM governance. Ultimately, it is shown how a fragmented but coordinated system of international governance may emerge, and a case is made that such a system is likely to more desirable and robust than one premised on a single international agreement or protocol.
Jinnah, Sikina and Douglas Bushey. 2017. “Bringing Politics into SAI.” Journal of Ethics in International Affairs. 31(4):1-5.
This paper is an invited response to Christopher Preston's article in the same issue, which evaluates the moral culpability of the greenhouse gas emitter with that of the climate engineer.
Jinnah, Sikina, Simon Nicholson, and Jane Flegal. "Ensuring Legitimacy of Stakeholder Engagement in Geoengineering Research Governance: A preliminary proposal for sub-state actor leadership." Manuscript presented at Geoengineering Political Legitimacy and Justice. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (November 2017)
Drawing on the literatures at the intersection of democratic legitimacy, stakeholder engagement, and orchestration theory, this paper proposes a three-pronged approach to engage stakeholders in the governance of near-term out-of-laboratory SRM experiments.