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
Don’t Geoengineer Africa: Hands Off Mother Earth! Alliance Policy Brief
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...
Briefing for UNEA6 Delegates on Solar Radiation Modification
As the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) kicks off in Nairobi, Kenya, the Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance and allies have published a new briefing for delegates on what is set to be a hotly-debated topic at the Assembly:...
Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen
A new briefing by CIEL describes how technological fixes like direct air capture (DAC) are gaining dangerous momentum at a time when our window to prevent catastrophic climate impacts is narrowing. While pulling pollution out of the atmosphere might sound like a good...
Technology and Geoengineering Map updates
Dumping biomass in the open ocean is an unproven carbon removal strategy, but that hasn’t stopped companies from selling carbon credits from it
This update on Marine Geoengineering through biomass sinking 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....
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...
In-depth reports
The Big Bad Fix
ETC Group, BiofuelWatch and Heinrich Boell Foundation present a comprehensive argument against geoengineering in this report. Click here to download the full report (pdf) As a rapidly warming world manifests heat waves, floods, droughts and hurricanes, geoengineering...
Latest guest articles
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...
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...
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