By Anja Chalmin The third and final part of this quarterly review provides an overview of planned greenhouse gas removal (GGR) projects and outdoor trials affecting the marine environment. The new year has seen an increase in the number of planned marine...
By Anja Chalmin Part two of this first quarterly review 2022 looks at new plans and funding for solar radiation management (SRM) field trials and research activities - and there are even ideas that stretch into space. Currently, five SRM field...
By Anja Chalmin The new year has begun with new geoengineering approaches, plans, research activities and funding spanning all natural environments - land, sea and air - and there are even ideas that stretch into space. Regardless of the natural environment in which...
A group of academics from around the world are calling for a non-use agreement on solar geoengineering. Their petition takes the stance that "solar geoengineering deployment at planetary scale cannot be fairly and effectively governed in the current system of...
By Anja ChalminThe last quarter of 2021 saw the announcement of a number of new geoengineering experiments, as well as commercial and research projects that impact the marine environment, including geoengineering approaches that aim to manage solar radiation, brighten...
Photo Credit: Alberta NewsroomBy Anja Chalmin The third part of the report presents new developments, projects and funding programmes for the geoengineering field of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). More than 70 new Carbon Capture and Storage projects started in 2021...
Photo Credit: Statkraft By Anja Chalmin 3,000 miles of CO2 pipelines to be built and other updates on capturing carbon using plant biomass The second part of the report presents developments, projects and funding programmes aimed at capturing carbon using plant...
By Anja Chalmin This report presents the latest developments in geoengineering technologies, projects and funding programs worldwide in recent months. The report’s findings show an increasing interest in capturing CO2 (carbon dioxide) from ambient air and...
New Report from Biofuelwatch Exposes Sordid Workings of California Climate Politics While California state authorities continue to promote markets-based and technological approaches to advance ‘net zero’ as a primary focus for climate policy, grassroots organizations...
By Anja Chalmin The fossil fuel industry has a stake in the majority of known CCS and CCUS projects Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) fall into the category of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) geoengineering...
By Anja Chalmin Since 2017, the companies Carbfix and Climeworks have been working on joint projects to capture CO2 and inject it underground in Iceland. Now this cooperation is to be expanded further: Climeworks aims to multiply the amount of...
By Anja Chalmin Current developments on geoengineering technologies across six continents Part 3 of this quarterly review on geoengineering presents new technical developments and funding programmes and reports on a number of long-standing projects. Direct Air...
By Anja Chalmin The "storage" of captured CO2 in consumer products is to be further developed with extensive financial support provided by companies and governments The Carbon XPRIZE has announced the winners of the competition. The prize money will be used to...
We are excited to share #SayNo2Solar, a new video featuring Greta Thunberg, Michael Mann, Vandana Shiva, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Bill McKibben, Jennie Stephens, Naomi Klein, Tom Goldtooth and Åsa Larsson Blind. Watch the video to listen to their warnings about the...
Introducing a new website from the Stop SCoPEx Network Sweden. The website shares resources from the campaign along with the video of the Stop SCoPEx event along with interviews and videos of events about the risks of solar geoengineering. Visit stopsolargeo.org The...
Photo Credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Linnea Nordström Creative Commons LicenseA letter from the Saami Council to Harvard calls on Harvard to cancel the SCoPEx solar geoengineering experiment. Signed by over 35 Indigenous organizations the letter states, "solar...
RESIST FALSE SOLUTIONSTO CLIMATE CHANGE Hoodwinked in the Hothouse is a new report that details new and alarming false solutions to climate change. Several HOME campaign friends and allies worked on the report to expose false climate solutions.In the 12 years since...
9 June, 11:00 – 1:30 pm EDT Perspectives from scientists panel :: 11 am – 12 pm EDT Michael Mann, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Jennie Stephens Voices from movements panel :: 12 pm – 1:30 pm EDTTom Goldtooth, Naomi Klein, Åsa Larsson Blind, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva,...
Photo 1: A worker lays white paint on the Peruvian Andes in a bid to get water and vegetation to return to the mountain range, © CNNPhoto 2: ‘BioUrban 2.0’ air purification system in Puebla, Mexico on August 7, © AFPPhoto 3: Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Technology...
The HOME campaign welcomes the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)’s decision to stop the solar geoengineering balloon test flight in response to strong opposition from Saami Council, Swedish Civil Society and researchers. These groups have been clear that the test flight...
The Saami Council has together with Swedish environmental organisations sent a letter to the Advisory Committee of the Harvard-based SCoPEx geoengineering project. In the letter the Saami Council voices their strong concerns and demands cancellation of the planned...
February 8, 2021 To:Per Bolund, Minister for Environment and Climate, and Deputy Prime MinisterIbrahim Baylan, Minister for Business, Industry and InnovationMatilda Ernkrans, Minister for Higher Education and Research cc:Stefan Gardefjord, President and CEO of Swedish...
Download PDF version: Sweden_SCoPEx_Briefing Location: Esrange Space Centre, Kiruna, Sweden Researchers in charge: Frank Keutsch (Principal Investigator), David Keith (Mission Scientist), based at Harvard University. Objectives The project stated objectives are:...
by Anja Chalmin The interactive geoengineering map, generated by ETC Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, documents geoengineering projects and experiments worldwide. An analysis of the data shows that on the African continent the topic „Geoengineering“ has...