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In this Climate Chat episode, host Dan Miller interviews the CEO of Reflective, Dakota Gruener, about her organization's support of Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM, a.k.a., solar-geoengineering) research.Dakota Gruener leads Reflective, a non-profit climate initiative accelerating the pace of sunlight reflection research. Across a career spanning global health, digital privacy, and climate, Dakota has focused on developing frontier technologies with the potential for worldwide impact—while ensuring the risks they pose are addressed responsibly. Originally trained in biology and political science, she served as aide-de-camp to the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where she supported negotiations with vaccine manufacturers and helped raise $10B to fund five years of vaccine programs in low- and middle-income countries. She was also founding Executive Director of ID2020, a global alliance committed to ethical, privacy-protecting digital identity and served as co-chair of both the WHO Smart Vaccine Certificate Working Group, which set international standards for COVID vaccination certificates, and the Good Health Pass Collaborative, a private-sector initiative (125+ companies) focused on resumption of international travel. Dakota holds a degree from Brown University and is a proud Californian.Link to Reflective: https://reflective.orgLink to Dakota's op-ed in the Guardian: "We can safely experiment with reflecting sunlight away from Earth. Here’s how":https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/reflecting-sunlight-climate-crisis-heatingFollow Dakota on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dakotagruenerPlease Like and Subscribe!Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.Follow Dan Miller on X/Twitter: @danmiller999Follow Dan Miller on Bluesky: @danmiller999.bsky.social and @climatechat.bsky.socialLeon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-SimonsFollow Leon on X/Twitter: @LeonSimons8 and Bluesky: @leonsimons.bsky.socialFollow Leon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/LeonSimons/homeFollow Stacey Randecker on X/Twitter: @DrivingMzStacey and Bluesky: @bikingmzstacey.bsky.socialFollow Eli Rabani on X/Twitter: @radsci and Bluesky: @radsci.bsky.socialYou can leave a question in the YouTube Live chat. Please begin your question with "Question:" to make it easy for our mods to spot it.For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechatFor recent YouTube Live Climate Chat programs: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat/streams