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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...
Over-promising and under-delivering for half a century: CCS is still a risky and unproven technology
This Geoengineering Map Update on Carbon Capture 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 geoengineering...
Growing concerns about Biochar safety and carbon markets
Photo Credit: UnsplashBy: Anja Chalmin The Geoengineering Map Update 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....
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
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...
Commercialization in geoengineering continues to increase
By Anja Chalmin The Quarterly Review summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map highlighting emerging trends for civil society and climate justice movements. Key Points - Quarterly Review IV In the last quarter of 2022, the trend continues...
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...
Latest from the HOME! Alliance
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,...
Webinar: Geoengineering the ocean is not a climate solution
Tuesday 7th May | 3:00-4:30 pm UTC | Interpretation available in ENG, SPA & FR | REGISTER HERE Ahead of the intersessional meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in May and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...