Nikolaj Kornbech

Roskilde University · Department of People and Technology

Persistently rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations challenge dominant Liberal hopes that science and multilateralism might deliver rational, global climate outcomes. Emerging Realist climate approaches that take geopolitics and national interests more seriously have yet to explore Morgenthau’s concern that ‘scientism’ – exaggerated faith...

The Arctic has been identified by scientists as a relatively promising venue for controversial ‘solar geoengineering’ – technical schemes to reflect more sunlight to counteract global warming. Yet contemporary regional security dynamics and the relative (in)significance of climate concerns among the key Arctic states suggest a different conclusion....

Repeated failures to reduce climate emissions has led to increasing investment in and political support for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, which aim to remove already-emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This increasing salience has led to an emerging field of scholarship which explores the social dimensions of emerging CDR ideas...

Political ecologies of carbon removal are co-produced by scientific and engineering practices, which are in turn affected by the political economy of innovation regimes. How current innovation regimes condition carbon removal development towards particular technical and economic outcomes is not well understood. This paper presents a case study of t...

This chapter introduces geoengineering as a new arena of international politics and explains why hopeful technical explorations of alternative climate strategies have not properly factored in the international. It asks how international politics might affect potential development and deployment of geoengineering techniques, and conversely how their...