Overview

Reflective is a nonprofit funded by philanthropic grants that accelerates research into sunlight reflection (solar radiation management) and stratospheric aerosol injection to inform near-term climate decisions rather than advocate deployment. It defines research roadmaps, funds priority studies, and provides open-source tools, including the Reflective Cloud—a free cloud computing platform with climate model data for researchers to run simulations and share results. Unlike for-profit competitors, Reflective maintains a transparent funding policy and avoids funds from fossil-fuel-linked sources, focusing on open, collaborative science and governance. Its goal is to create a robust knowledge base and practical tools to guide socially informed policy decisions about if and how sunlight reflection techniques could be deployed.