Royal Society of Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Group

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Following the 2016 Distinguished Guest Lecture and Symposium, we publish a meeting report (pp. 9–10) and four articles (pp. 11–21) on the science and politics of geoengineering. DGL lecturer Dr. Alan Robock (pp. 19–21) highlights the risks of a widely discussed geoengineering strategy, stratospheric aerosol injection, and concludes that geoengineering must not be seen as a panacea to global warming.