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This work describes a structured, risk-based approach for analyzing questions related to the potential deployment of a climate intervention in any user-established future scenario, and further provides a structured means for considering what the potential consequences of such interventions may be. Because the climatological, technological, and geopolitical conditions are currently not believed to be supportive of climate intervention use, the framework establishes a three-pronged approach to frame key analytical questions predicated on future scenarios of interest to the user. These three pieces are: (1) Building a scenario. (2) Assessing the likelihood of that scenario based on assumptions about an actor and their motivations for deploying a climate intervention. (3) Analyzing the potential consequences of that climate intervention. Finally, results from this consequence analysis are compared against projected consequences of unabated climate change as a complete risk analysis of deploying a climate intervention.

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In July 2022, Sandia National Laboratories hosted a workshop in Washington, D.C., bringing together representatives from eleven Federal Government agencies, responsible for public health, environmental security, and biodefense, as well as six Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories, to discuss how to work together to address climate-driven zoonotic disease risk. The primary goal of this workshop was to provide a forum for Federal and DOE National Lab attendees to share their missions, programs, and capabilities relevant to zoonotic disease emergence, to discuss how to best leverage these collective resources, identify key gaps, and to determine an effective path forward.