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UCT Researcher and ACIR Hub Student Wins Inaugural Saleemul Huq Prize
At the closing session of the Degrees Global Forum 2025, Trisha Patel, a researcher from the University of Cape Town and member of the ACES Lab and ACIRH, received the inaugural Saleemul Huq Prize...
Informed Voices, Informed Futures: African Scientists Respond to Misrepresentations of Solar Geoengineering Research
By the Africa Climate Intervention Research Hub • Misinformation framing solar geoengineering (SRM) research as “neo-colonial experimentation” diminishes the contributions of African expertise in...
African Scientists Gather in Cape Town to Strengthen Collaborative SRM Research
In March 2024, scientists from across Africa gathered in Cape Town for a three-day workshop that laid the foundation for a new era of coordinated SRM research on the continent. Co-hosted by CSAG...
ACIRH Researcher Dr Romaric Odoulami Named Among 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders
Dr Romaric C. Odoulami, a climate scientist with UCT’s African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) and member of the ACIR Hub, has been recognised by Forbes as one of the 2025 Sustainability...
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What could climate intervention mean for Africa’s renewable energy future?
ACIRH Fellow Christiane Coulibaly explores the possible implications for solar and wind energy across Africa. By Wonder & Co. This month, we sat...
SRM360 Tool: SRM Researcher Database
This page introduces SRM360's public Researcher Database for Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM) It serves as a tool for journalists, policymakers,...
Introducing the Climate Intervention Futures Initiative: Building Conceptual Infrastructure for a New Frontier of Climate Action
As climate impacts accelerate and progress on mitigation continues to lag, ideas that once sat at the speculative edge of climate research are...
How could SRM affect West Africa?
With risks from climate change mounting, there is growing interest in emerging approaches to cool the planet, known as sunlight reflection methods...
From Pinatubo to Policy: ACIRH Meets in Accra to Discuss Climate Intervention
by Dr Hugo De Lemos, Wonder & Co Climate experts and stakeholders met to discuss climate intervention strategies that could help lower global...