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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1st October 2024 - for immediate use On the UN’s International Day for Universal Access to Information, research group Geoengineering Monitor has launched an updated and information-packed new website on global climate engineering proposals. It serves as an up-to-date...
By Senara Wilson Hodges, Keep Our Sea Chemical Free and The Cornwall Carbon Scrutiny Group Local residents are fiercely proud and protective of St Ives Bay. It is counted as one of the UK’s most beautiful coastal environments—flanked by award winning golden beaches...
Geoengineering Monitor July 2024 newsletter. Want to receive our newsletters by email? Sign up here. With concrete climate finance commitments still falling woefully short of what is required in terms of mitigation and adaptation efforts, and the loss and damages...
Opinion piece by Mary Church, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance, originally posted by IPSnews.net Despite the evident and increasing urgency of the climate crisis, the June intersessional meeting of the UNFCCC...
Bonn, Germany - At a press conference held today at UNFCCC pre-COP29 climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, civil society organizations raised concerns that Geoengineering is a risky facade that is being used to divert attention away from the urgent need to address...
*Alameda City Shows Technofixes are a Dangerous Distraction* 8 June, 2024, for immediate release On UN World Oceans Day, over 100 civil society organizations including NGOs, Indigenous Peoples' groups, climate justice networks and social justice movements from across...
Guest article by Tamra Gilbertson, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Coraina de la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance As global temperature records continue to be broken at unprecedented rates, delegates are gathering again in Bonn, Germany, for the 60th...
There's much at stake at this year's session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC SB60), which is taking place 3-13 June in Bonn, Germany. The Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME!) Alliance delegation brings together a...
Guest article by Katy Brown, bioenergy campaigner with Biofuelwatch Earlier this year the UK Secretary of State Claire Coutinho granted development consent for Drax’s Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage project at its Selby power plant. Almost simultaneously,...
Biofuelwatch's new briefing, Biochar: A critical perspective, looks into what the science tells us about whether biochar reliably stores carbon and boosts soil fertility. Download the briefing In 2011, Biofuelwatch published a comprehensive report on biochar:...
New ETC Group briefing for delegates at SBSTTA 26 In a wave of “blue carbon” hype, oceans and coastal areas are increasingly pitched as tools to fight global warming. Around the globe dozens of new projects are projected to increase the ocean's capacity to absorb CO2...
Guest article by Ayumi Fukakusa, Deputy Executive Director of Friends of the Earth Japan As the need to drastically cut emissions grows greater than ever, so too does the attention being placed on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)—by those who want to keep polluting....
Geoengineering Monitor April 2024 newsletter. Want to receive our newsletters by email? Sign up here. Three weeks ago today state and industry representatives came together in Barcelona for the Ocean Decade Conference, a multilateral UN event aiming to "create a new...