By Coraina da la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance coordinator, and Oli Munnion, Geoengineering Monitor editor The impacts of climate change are being felt far and wide all around the globe, and Global South countries are being hit the hardest even though...
March 21, 2024 - Just three weeks after Global South countries successfully blocked a dangerous push to legitimize solar geoengineering [1] at the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA6) in Nairobi, Harvard University has announced the cancellation of the Stratospheric...
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at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) a resolution on solar geoengineering was withdrawn.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...
A group of academics from around the world are calling for a non-use agreement on solar geoengineering. Their petition takes the stance that "solar geoengineering deployment at planetary scale cannot be fairly and effectively governed in the current system of...
The HOME campaign welcomes the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)’s decision to stop the solar geoengineering balloon test flight in response to strong opposition from Saami Council, Swedish Civil Society and researchers. These groups have been clear that the test flight...
By Oli Munnion (Biofuelwatch) The Climate Engineering Conference 2017 aimed to "bring together the research, policy, and civic communities to discuss the highly complex and interlinked ethical, social and technical issues related to climate engineering." In practice,...
For the past decade, a small but growing group of governments and scientists, the majority from the most powerful and most climate-polluting countries in the world, has been pushing for political consideration of geoengineering, the deliberate large-scale...
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...
by Roger Boyd (Resilience) There is a genre of Hollywood “feel-good” disaster movie, where everything seems nearly hopeless until the end, and then suddenly, many times against all hope, the super-hero (or super-heroes) saves the day. Whether it be human heroes that...
Disclaimer: This article is broadly pro-geoengineering, but alarmingly the authors say it would take 160 years of sulphate injections to keep global temperature increases to under 2 degrees! by Atmos News How much geoengineering would be necessary to hit temperature...