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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is preparing a report on keeping global warming below 1.5 °C. How the panel chooses to deal with the option of solar geoengineering will test the integrity of scientific climate policy advice.

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  1. Andy Parker is at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Berliner Straße 130, 14467 Potsdam, Germany and at the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (www.srmgi.org),

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  2. Oliver Geden is at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, 10719 Berlin, Germany,

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Parker, A., Geden, O. No fudging on geoengineering. Nature Geosci 9, 859–860 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2851

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