Full Comment by David Keith on Climate Response Fund Conference

David Keith's written response to the Climate Response Fund (CRF) Conference:

I am very happy to see yet another meeting discussing geoengineering governance. My only concern about this meeting is that the convening organization, CRF is nontransparent and appears to be closely tied to Climos which was conceived to do ocean fertilization for profit. While I am happy to see profit-driven startups drive innovation, I think tying ocean fertilization to carbon credits was a sterling example of how not to govern climate engineering and I am therefore concerned to see a closely linked organization at the center of a meeting on governance. A meeting on governance ought to start by having transparent and disinterested governance.