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...
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UN Climate Talks: Setting Sail to Plunder the Ocean
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...
HOME! Alliance Press Release | Geoengineering: A Dangerous Climate Fix
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...
HOME! Alliance SB60 media advisory | Geoengineering: A Dangerous Climate Fix
10 June | 12 Noon CEST Geoengineering is a set of risky technological proposals attempting to mask some of the symptoms of the climate crisis. The proposals imply many environmental and socio-economic risks, and are also used to divert attention away from addressing...
Press release: Geoengineering our oceans needs to be halted
*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...
City of Alameda puts a stop to the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening experiment
Guest article by California residents Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch/Geoengineering Monitor, and Eesha Rangani, HOME! Alliance Marine Geoengineering Working Group coordinator In the early hours of this morning, City of Alameda City Council members voted unanimously to call...
HOME! Alliance at SB60: Making a stand against geoengineering, carbon markets and other false solutions
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...
Press Release: Civil Society Calls for a Stop to Geoengineering our Oceans
*Technofixes are a dangerous distraction from real climate action* 30 May, 2024, for immediate release Over 70 civil society organizations including NGOs, climate justice networks, social justice movements, and Indigenous Peoples groups from across the...
HOME! Alliance Statement on Marine Geoengineering Experiments
We, civil society, Indigenous Peoples and grassroots organizations from around the world, are deeply concerned by the proliferation of open air and water marine geoengineering experiments that are planned or already underway, many of which are selling carbon offsets,...
UK government rubber stamps Drax’s first-of-a-kind BECCS scheme, then proposes subsidies for business-as-usual biomass burning
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,...
GeoMonitor updates March 2024: UNEA-6 / Carbon capture techs review / COP28
Geoengineering Monitor March 2024 newsletter. Want to receive our newsletters by email? Sign up here. Dear subscribers, welcome to the March edition of the Geoengineering Monitor newsletter! In it we cover: The fall-out from discussions around solar geoengineering at...
Geoengineering explodes at COP 28 but Article 6 remains undecided
More than at any other prior COP, geoengineering has featured prominently at COP28. There were more than 40 side events on marine geoengineering, especially marine carbon dioxide removal techniques like enhanced ocean alkalinity. These technologies are a dangerous...
Thoughts on AMCEN’s decision at the 19th Session on Geoengineering Technologies
Photo Credit: Ministry of Environment - RwandaBy Dr. Mfoniso Antia (Health of Mother Earth Foundation/Africa Technology Assessment Platform) and Seryna Solanki (Outgoing Coordinator, Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance)Earlier in August, at its 19th Ordinary Session, the...
Does the Overshoot Commission’s latest report open a door to risky Solar Geoengineering?
By Laura Dunn, Geoengineering Monitor Editor Scientists and civil society organizations voiced a strong rejection of the Overshoot Commission report launched yesterday. Undemocratically appointed, the Overshoot Commission is not an independent body; it is a group made...
Civil society says geoengineering has no place in climate negotiations
By Laura Dunn, Geoengineering Monitor Editor False climate solutions are dangerous distractions - this is the key message from yesterday’s action calling out false climate solutions like carbon markets and geoengineering. Civil society organisations, grassroots...
Briefing Debunks Myths about Solar Geoengineering
The Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement, an initiative signed by 400+ academics from over 50 countries recently released a briefing note (in English and Spanish) that debunks the ten most prevalent myths advanced by solar geoengineering lobbyists. This is a useful...
By prohibiting solar geoengineering experiments, Mexico sets a global example of precaution
By Laura Dunn, Editor of Geoengineering Monitor The Mexican government recently announced that it will not permit solar geoengineering experiments and will go so far as to stop geoengineering experiments in the country, if necessary. This decision followed two...
Over 80 civil society organizations call on CBD COP15 to reinforce precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities
December 12, 2022, Montreal, Canada – Eighty-three national and international organizations from forty countries have released an open letter calling on the parties to the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (CBD) to say no to geoengineering and yes to...
CBD COP15 needs to reinforce precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities
No to climate geoengineering! Open call to CBD Parties and CBD Secretariat The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took a groundbreaking decision by addressing geoengineering and its potential impacts on biodiversity and people early on. In a...
PRESS CONFERENCE: HOME Alliance says no to ‘removals’ and geoengineering in UNFCCC Article 6.4
WHO: Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), ETC Group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) WHERE: COP27, Press Conference Room 2 Luxor WHEN:...
UNFCCC Article 6.4: No to legitimizing geoengineering and land-based offsets
Download the statement HERE Paris Agreement Article 6 is designed to allow Parties to engage in cooperative activities “to allow for higher ambition.” The Supervisory Body for the 6.4 mechanism – the successor to the Clean Development Mechanism – has been tasked to...
Is a new legal pathway to stopping dangerous marine geoengineering projects on the horizon?
Photo Credit: Linus NylundBy Laura DunnFrom the arctic to the Galapagos, communities have been resisting marine geoengineering projects that threaten their coasts and marine ecosystems around the world. A recent announcement from the London Protocol / London...
Geoengineering Supporters Plan to Set up a New Climate Overshoot Commission
Photo Credit: Benjamin ChildBy: Geoengineering MonitorIn May 2022, a new “global commission” will be launched to discuss and potentially devise a governance regime for solar geoengineering. This article provides background, context, and critical assessment to inform...
Join global experts in calling on the UN for a solar geoengineering non-use agreement
A few weeks ago, 100+ concerned academics worldwide called for a Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering, asking governments to declare not to fund or deploy the development of solar geoengineering technologies. Many concerned scholars, such as Prof Frank Biermann,...