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Geoengineering from space: the final frontier for planetary-scale climate manipulation?
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...
Geoengineering the clouds: Solar radiation management in the lower atmosphere
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...
Carbon markets are driving the biochar boom despite questionable climate claims
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...
Latest guest articles
COP30’s Carbon Capture Frenzy – Lobbyists Pushing False Solutions Are Distracting From Real Climate Action
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...
Solar Geoengineering for War and Profit
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....
Entrenching a New Era of Climate Colonialism Part Two: Carbon Market Non-Negotiations at COP30
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...
Latest briefings and reports
New briefing offers a critical perspective on biochar
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:...
Protect coastal and marine biodiversity from geoengineering
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...
Don’t Geoengineer Africa: Hands Off Mother Earth! Alliance Policy Brief
This HOME! Alliance Policy Brief has been published by the HOME Africa working group on Geoengineering, and was distributed to delegates at the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi in February 2024. You can download the briefing in English (the French...
Latest from the HOME! Alliance
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...