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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
Degrees of deception: The perilous path of Solar Radiation Manipulation for Africa
Guest article by Kwami Kpondzo, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), and Josué Aruna, Congo Basin Conservation Society-Network As Cape Town hosts the Degrees Global Forum this week, a crucial question looms over the gathering: Why is Africa increasingly becoming a key...
Stockholm Exergi’s BECCS project under scrutiny: Climate solution or costly gamble?
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...
UN climate talks could undermine precaution on geoengineering called for by the biodiversity convention
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...
Latest briefings and reports
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...
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...
Latest from the HOME! Alliance
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,...