Exploring whether SRM can reduce risks to biodiversity and human health
Project summary
Climate change is expected to have a severe impact on biodiversity and health, yet there is limited knowledge about whether SRM – a proposed approach to reduce climate risk – would have on those key outcomes. Dr Andreas Schwarz Meyer and his team from South Africa plan to fill an important gap in the research by conducting the first detailed overview – globally and for developing countries – of the temporal and spatial dynamics of biodiversity risks under future climate scenarios with and without SRM. This will include estimates of the future distribution of Aedes and Culex mosquitoes, which carry diseases such as dengue, Zika virus, chikungunya, Rift Valley fever, and yellow fever. The results will provide crucial new information for policymakers and other stakeholders in developing countries about the potential of SRM to influence climate change risks to people and ecosystems.
