Jesse Reynolds is an expert in international environmental policy, particularly regarding emerging technologies. He has worked extensively on the governance of solar geoengineering (or “solar radiation modification”) and carbon dioxide removal, two sets of technologies to reduce climate change and its risks. He is the author of The Governance of Solar Geoengineering: Managing Climate Change in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Dr. Reynolds presently works for the Degrees Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps put developing countries at the center of the solar geoengineering conversation. Prior to that, he was executive secretary of the Climate Overshoot Commission, a group of independent, diverse, high-level individuals, and an Emmett / Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Reynolds has degrees from Tilburg University, The Netherlands (partially as a Fulbright Fellow, US Department of State); the University of California, Berkeley (as a US Environmental Protection Agency Science-to-Achieve Results Fellow); and Hampshire College.
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