This briefing by Anja Chalmin, a researcher with Geoengineering Monitor and the ETC Group, examines The Degrees Initiative, a UK-based NGO that is “dedicated to putting the Global South at the centre of the Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) conversation.” Contents...
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...
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...
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,...
Guest article by Ayumi Fukakusa, Deputy Executive Director of Friends of the Earth Japan As the need to drastically cut emissions grows greater than ever, so too does the attention being placed on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)—by those who want to keep polluting....
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...
Nairobi, Kenya – In the early hours of this morning at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) a resolution on solar geoengineering was withdrawn. Numerous African countries, along with many others from the Global South, advocated...
Rather than reducing emissions to stop the climate crisis, geoengineers are dumping chemicals into the oceanPlanetary Technology, a Canadian company, plans to dump 450 tonnes magnesium hydroxide into the sea in St. Ives Bay, Cornwall UK as part of an ocean alkalinity...
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...
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...
Source: handsoffmotherearth.org Originally published by Global Forest Coalition 15 February, 2023–Civil Society Organizations that advocate for climate and environmental justice are calling on the African Union to not Geoengineer Africa ahead of the African Union...
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...
Photo Credit: Antoinette PlessisBy Anja Chalmin The African continent - home to about one-fifth of the world's population and a great variety and diversity of other living creatures - has by far the lowest per capita emissions in an intercontinental comparison and is...
By Anja Chalmin Introduction In Asia, the number of new and planned carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects has increased rapidly in recent years. The captured CO2 is mostly used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) or enhanced gas recovery (EGR). EOR...
A letter from an Alaska Native delegation calls on the California-based Arctic Ice Project to cease all research operations for projects and methods intended for use in the Arctic. The Arctic Ice Project, a solar geoengineering project that aims to modify ice...
By Anja Chalmin Since 2017, the companies Carbfix and Climeworks have been working on joint projects to capture CO2 and inject it underground in Iceland. Now this cooperation is to be expanded further: Climeworks aims to multiply the amount of...
By Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch On Friday, Sept 10, the California legislative session drew to a close for the year with the typical flurry of political theater, last minute negotiations and behind closed doors horse trading. Of...
Photo 1: A worker lays white paint on the Peruvian Andes in a bid to get water and vegetation to return to the mountain range, © CNNPhoto 2: ‘BioUrban 2.0’ air purification system in Puebla, Mexico on August 7, © AFPPhoto 3: Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Technology...
ETC Group's Latin American Director Silvia Ribiero appeared on the Sojourner Truth Show on KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles last week with Margaret Prescod. Listen to the episode here: https://globaljusticeecology.org/earth-watch-silvia-ribeiro-on-geoengineering/
February 8, 2021 To:Per Bolund, Minister for Environment and Climate, and Deputy Prime MinisterIbrahim Baylan, Minister for Business, Industry and InnovationMatilda Ernkrans, Minister for Higher Education and Research cc:Stefan Gardefjord, President and CEO of Swedish...
by Anja Chalmin The interactive geoengineering map, generated by ETC Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, documents geoengineering projects and experiments worldwide. An analysis of the data shows that on the African continent the topic „Geoengineering“ has...
Our first podcast episode, which coincidentally is a year ender conversation, was with the respected Nigerian environmentalist, activist and poet, Nnimmo Bassey. This conversation speaks to the harsh realities of the year and carefully excavates the structural issues...
Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Campaign Statement December 22, 2020 On December 15th, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), a solar geoengineering project of Harvard University, announced its plan to conduct part of a geoengineering experiment...
A new proposal to create trillions of tonnes of artificial snow and shoot them onto two west Antarctic glaciers is an outrageous distraction