Mailing address
124 Mt. Auburn Street Suite 190, Room 107
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 117
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Andy Parker
Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-1396
Email: andrew_parker@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Andy Parker's research focuses on the governance and politics of research into solar geoengineering. As a senior policy adviser in the Science Policy Centre, he led the (UK) Royal Society's work on geoengineering for four years, including the production of the 2009 report, Geoengineering the Climate, and the ongoing SRM Governance Initiative (SRMGI). He is a member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's expert working group on geoengineering and also worked on climate change and energy policy for the Royal Society. Previously, he researched and wrote on human security for the Canadian government and worked in home energy efficiency.
Andy has an M.Sc. in international policy analysis from the University of Bath and a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Warwick (both UK).
January 2013
"The Fate of an Engineered Planet"
Journal Article, Scientific American, issue 1, volume 308
By David Keith, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Andy Parker, Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Solar engineering and other exceptionally ambitious new technologies to deal with the reality of rising global temperatures come riddled with uncertainties. To illustrate how complex the problem is and what kind of challenges lie ahead, here are three contrasting, and somewhat fantastical, scenarios.
