A concept of an energy-and-climate control facility in space to counter global overheating

Main results of the fifth Evaluation Report of the Climate Change Intergovernmental Experts Team became the foundation for the climate agreement of the UN Paris conference on climate (December 2015), by identifying the ways of countering a global environmental disaster on Earth. The conference reaffirmed the need to limit release of green house gases into the Earth atmosphere. However, meeting the goals set in the Evaluation Report is in doubt because of the existing political and economic differences among nations, which is evidenced by the level of commitments to limit emissions made by the heads of the countries that took part in the conference. This paper proposes to consider using untapped potential of spaceflight towards solving the global warming problem by contributing the UN Adaptation Fund through sale of rare materials mined on the Moon and setting up a reserve space energy-and-climate control facility. This would allow, on the one hand, to increase financial aid to developing countries to help them combat climate change consequences and lend support to the lunar industrial infrastructure, as well as to the development of a space system for thermal control, on the other hand, to stabilize as far as possible the geographic coordinates of climatic zones, the level of the ocean, etc., reducing losses to wildlife, and, among other things, to the Civilization.