Geoengineering Monitor publications and other resources
Technology briefings
Artificial Upwelling
Biochar
Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Capture Use and Storage
Cirrus Cloud Thinning
Direct Air Capture
Enhanced Photosynthesis
Enhanced Weathering
Marine Cloud Brightening
Microbubbles and Sea Foam
Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Ocean Fertilisation
Seaweed Farming and Biomass Sinking
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
Surface Albedo Modification and Arctic Ice Management
Weather Modification
Other briefings
New briefing: Why are Solar Radiation Management Experiments a Bad Idea?
by ETC Group. A new briefing from ETC Group outlines the ethical, political and environmental arguments against solar radiation management (SRM), and explains why even SRM experiments are a bad idea. The backgrounder was released in late March 2017 after Harvard...
ETC’s Irreverent Review of 2015… and (possibly) Irrelevant Preview of 2016
Download the full review here. The Year that Ended Dangerously If El Niño weren’t enough, the extraordinary winds that struck Yemen and Mexico’s Pacific Coast were matched by record-breaking forest fires in the Indonesian archipelago, droughts, torrential rains and...
The Risks of Climate Engineering
by Clive Hamilton (New York Times) The Republican Party has long resisted action on climate change, but now that much of the electorate wants something done, it needs to find a way out of the hole it has dug for itself. A committee appointed by the National Research...
Technology and Geoengineering Map updates
Governments Announce Subsidies for Carbon Capture Hubs (Quarterly #3)
by Anja Chalmin Despite many concerns about the technology's impacts, several governments – UK, Australia and Denmark among them – have announced financial backing for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS) hubs. CCS increases the...
Synthetic Fuels, Capture Pledges and Other Updates (Quarterly #2)
by Anja Chalmin CO2-based SYNTHETIC FUELS: NEW R&D COOPERATION AND PRODUCTION SITES In May, Lufthansa Group signed a Letter of Intent with the ETH Zurich and its two spin-offs Climeworks and Synhelion. The partnership aims to accelerate the market launch...
Marine Geoengineering, CC(U)S hubs, and Synfuels: Quarterly Update
by Anja Chalmin Marine geoengineering: further offshore trials announced The coastal waters off Callao, in the Humboldt Current of the coast of Peru, were the scene of upwelling trials from February to April, performed by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research...
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Further reading
You can find much more information and online resources on the geoengineering pages of the organisations that contribute to Geoengineering Monitor:
- Biofuelwatch’s Geoengineering page, focusing particularly on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and biochar
- ETC Group’s Climate and Geoengineering page, which is also available in Spanish and French
- The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s extensive Geoengineering page.
We would also encourage you to check out:
- The Climate Justice Alliance’s Geoengineering 101 page and factsheets
The Centre for Environmental Law’s (CIEL) Geoengineering page