SRM Governance in Global Tipping Points Report

15 February 2026 | ZEROGeoengineering.com | 2025 report below was published by the University of Exeter and funded by: Bezos Earth Fund, ARIA, Quadrature Climate Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, trex, and the Global Challenges Foundation. It’s explained in the report that the financial sector “plays a key role in governing tipping points.” The authors discuss Earth system tipping points (ESTP’s) in the context of belief in global temperature hypothesis, and the fear of greenhouse gasses. [NOTE: EPA repealed the CO2 endangerment finding last week.]

The paper recommends global governance mechanisms per the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and a moratorium on solar radiation modification (SRM) deployment. At the same time, the report also recommends rigorous international experimentation (“research”): “We recommend a moratorium on its deployment and large-scale experiments, alongside rigorous international research to assess both its risks and potential benefits.”

There is no justifiable distinction between outdoor SRM experimentation and actual SRM use.

Lenton, T. M., Milkoreit, M., Willcock, S., Abrams, J. F., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Buxton, J. E., Donges, J. F., Loriani, S., Wunderling, N., Alkemade, F., Barrett, M., Constantino, S., Powell, T., Smith, S. R., Boulton, C. A., Pinho, P., Dijkstra, H. A. Pearce-Kelly, P., Roman Cuesta, R. M., Dennis, D. (eds), 2025, The Global Tipping Points Report 2025. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. ©The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, University of Exeter, UK.

Global climate change governance is centered around the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Solar radiation modification governance

The financial sector, in particular, plays a key role in governing tipping points. Through its influence in shaping economic dynamics, it is an active driver of ecosystem destabilisation, but it is also reciprocally exposed to ESTPs.