The EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC) is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to extending knowledge about the increasingly complex, uncertain and ambiguous risks that affect society. We develop risk governance strategies that involve all key stakeholder groups, including citizens, governments, businesses and academia.
Policy options to address collision risk from space debris
This policy brief offers a range of policy options and generic recommendations to improve the assessment, evaluation and management of collision risk. IRGC emphasises that action must be taken immediately, even though a more thorough risk assessment must still be completed.
Using stratospheric aerosol injection to alleviate global warming: when?
In IRGC’s latest Spotlight on risk article, Marie-Valentine Florin suggests a possible decision framework to help policymakers consider using stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI). Such a framework would be necessary if concrete evidence is found that SAI can contribute to reducing warming and that its related risks are acceptable.
A risk-risk assessment framework for Solar Radiation Modification
In this Spotlight on risk article, guest authors Nicholas Harrison, Janos Pasztor and Kai-Uwe Barani Schmidt of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G), offer a framework to help decision-makers consider risk trade-offs of exploring solar radiation modification (SRM) technologies.
