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Carbon market-driven experiments in the open ocean endanger the marine environment
This update on Marine Geoengineering through Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) 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...
They can’t see the wood for the MechanicalTrees™: Recent Direct Air Capture projects are more successful at capturing funding than carbon
This Update on Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies 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. See here...
CCUS is boosting corporate profits even though many schemes could actually result in more emissions
This Geoengineering Map Update on Carbon Capture Use and Storage technologies 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...
Latest guest articles
Geoengineering: Global Southwashing is the new greenwashing
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...
Geoengineering is a crime against Mother Earth and her children
Ahead of the publication of her new book “The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change”, Dr. Vandana Shiva reflects on the risks that solar geoengineering poses to life itself, and the fallacy of using more pollution to solve a climate crisis created...
Secret marine geoengineering experiment off the coast of Cornwall sparks community resistance
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...
Latest briefings and reports
False claims from geoengineers, and other recent developments in Latin America
Photo Credit: Antonio Lapa By Anja Chalmin Two years ago, we provided an inventory of geoengineering projects on the Latin American continent. As then, most geoengineering activities in Latin America continue to be driven or carried out by...
The Seaweed Delusion: Industrial seaweed will not cool the climate or save nature
As the world scrambles for a climate fix, seaweeds – or “macroalgae” – have been thrust into the limelight. Buoyed up by hype and hundreds of millions of dollars of so called “green” investment, a new “blue carbon” seaweed industry is invading coasts and seas,...
Impacts of methane and commercializing methane capture
By Anja Chalmin Comparing anthropogenic influence on the two most important GHGs[i] Preindustrial atmospheric concentration never exceeded:Atmospheric concentration in 2022:Percentage increase:Annual emissions prior to industrializationGlobal annual emissions...
Latest from the HOME! Alliance
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...
Carbon markets, geoengineering and other false solutions: What’s at stake at the current climate talks?
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...
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...