In 2025 a new ‘high risk-high reward’ agency funded by the UK Government began bankrolling outdoor solar geoengineering experiments, in direct contravention of agreed international moratoria and norms. ETC Group decided to take a closer look. High risk ‘deep tech’...
Guest article by Mohammed Usrof, Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy Solar geoengineering is moving from academic debate into political infrastructure. It is being advanced as a security and profit project for a world that refuses to phase out fossil fuels and...
This report by Jared Sanborn and J. P. Sapinski, published by the Heinrich Böell Foundation, analyses the period from 2020 to 2025, and shows that funding for high-risk solar geoengineering technologies has increased dramatically - more than tenfold. Both 2024 and...
This update on Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. This...
By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California Brazil's Expanding "Green Deserts" Picture a desert: hot, dry, and teeming with drought-resistant life. Now, think about what...
Geoengineering Monitor newsletter December 2025 Billed variously as the “Implementation COP”, “Forest COP”, and “Bioeconomy COP”, the latest round of UN climate talks, COP30 in Belém, Brazil, delivered weak voluntary pledges, no fossil-fuel phase-out, and a worrying...
By Rachel Kennerley, Senior International Carbon Capture Campaigner, Center for International Environmental Law The 2025 UN climate talks in Brazil were marked by massive hype around Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and carbon removal geoengineering...
By Silvia Ribeiro in La Jornada Stardust, a new Israeli company, has announced that it raised $60 million to develop a solar geoengineering project that it will sell to the highest bidder. This is by far the largest for-profit solar geoengineering project to date....
This update on surface albedo modification summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. This update is...
Guest article by Tamra L Gilbertson, MPH, PhD This article is a sequel to “Entrenching a new era of climate colonialism: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions at COP30”, which was published ahead of the Belém climate talks. At a time...
This update on solar geoengineering in space summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. This update is...
Guest article by Tamra L Gilbertson, MPH, PhD As the world turns its attention to Brazil for COP30, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) once again faces scrutiny regarding its legitimacy, equity, and effectiveness. Despite grand rhetoric...
This update on solar geoengineering in the troposphere summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. This...
Guest article by Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Oli Munnion, Global Forest Coalition Despite the evidence exposing the harms of monoculture plantations to communities, water resources, biodiversity and the climate, proponents of ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’ (CDR) continue...
Geoengineering Monitor newsletter July 2025 This year will see big moves towards rolling out several Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies under the Paris Agreement’s carbon trading mechanism, which is seen as a key pillar in global climate mitigation efforts....
Guest article By California resident Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch Recent developments in California offer another clear indication that Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) cannot be relied upon as a Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategy. California...
Guest article by Kwami Kpondzo, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), and Josué Aruna, Congo Basin Conservation Society-Network As Cape Town hosts the Degrees Global Forum this week, a crucial question looms over the gathering: Why is Africa increasingly becoming a key...
This update on Biochar summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends to aid civil society and climate justice movements in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. It was researched and written by Anja Chalmin...
Guest article by Martin Pigeon, Forest & Climate Campaigner (Bioenergy) with Fern Stockholm Exergi’s ambitious plan to deploy a flagship Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) facility at its Värtaverket biomass plant in Stockholm, Sweden, has stirred...
Guest article by Linda Schneider, Heinrich Boell Foundation International Climate Policy Director, and Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group Latin American Director. Originally published on boell.de. UNFCCC negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risk legitimising...
This update on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends to aid civil society and climate justice movements in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. This...
The Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance is celebrating a hard-fought victory at the 16th Convention of the Parties of the UN's convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16), with negotiators agreeing reaffirm the CBD's de facto moratorium on geoengineering, and...
By Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group Latin America Director, Mexico. Article translated and re-published from original in La Jornada. British NGO The Degrees Initiative presents itself as a support fund for academics from the Global South to carry out research on the effects...
This briefing by Anja Chalmin, a researcher with Geoengineering Monitor and the ETC Group, examines The Degrees Initiative, a UK-based NGO that is “dedicated to putting the Global South at the centre of the Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) conversation.” Contents...