What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere in order to address the symptoms of climate change, often on a temporary basis. It ignores and in many cases enables the root causes of the climate crisis to continue.

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What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere in order to address the symptoms of climate change, often on a temporary basis. It ignores and in many cases enables the root causes of the climate crisis to continue.

Learn moreGeoengineering Map

What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere in order to address the symptoms of climate change, often on a temporary basis. It ignores and in many cases enables the root causes of the climate crisis to continue.

Learn moreGeoengineering Map

What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere in order to address the symptoms of climate change, often on a temporary basis. It ignores and in many cases enables the root causes of the climate crisis to continue.

Learn moreGeoengineering Map

What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere in order to address the symptoms of climate change, often on a temporary basis. It ignores and in many cases enables the root causes of the climate crisis to continue.

Learn moreGeoengineering Map

What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere in order to address the symptoms of climate change, often on a temporary basis. It ignores and in many cases enables the root causes of the climate crisis to continue.

Learn moreGeoengineering Map

What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere in order to address the symptoms of climate change, often on a temporary basis. It ignores and in many cases enables the root causes of the climate crisis to continue.

Learn moreGeoengineering Map
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Geoengineering: the basics

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Technologies

What geoengineering approaches are being proposed?

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Key reasons to oppose

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The Geoengineering Map

With over 1,700 entries, this up-to-date interactive world map exposes the alarming expansion of geoengineering experiments and commercial-scale projects, including Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Management schemes.

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Latest news and publications

Technology updates

Arctic ice management and other marine geoengineering projects should remain science fiction

Dumping biomass in the open ocean is an unproven carbon removal strategy, but that hasn’t stopped companies from selling carbon credits from it

Carbon market-driven experiments in the open ocean endanger the marine environment

They can’t see the wood for the MechanicalTrees™: Recent Direct Air Capture projects are more successful at capturing funding than carbon

CCUS is boosting corporate profits even though many schemes could actually result in more emissions

Guest articles

Geoengineering is a crime against Mother Earth and her children 

Secret marine geoengineering experiment off the coast of Cornwall sparks community resistance

City of Alameda puts a stop to the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening experiment

Carbon markets, geoengineering and other false solutions: What’s at stake at the current climate talks?

UK government rubber stamps Drax’s first-of-a-kind BECCS scheme, then proposes subsidies for business-as-usual biomass burning

BRIEFINGS AND Reports

New briefing offers a critical perspective on biochar

Protect coastal and marine biodiversity from geoengineering

Don’t Geoengineer Africa: Hands Off Mother Earth! Alliance Policy Brief

Briefing for UNEA6 Delegates on Solar Radiation Modification 

Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen

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What is Geoengineering Monitor?

Geoengineering Monitor aims to be an up-to-date source of information and critical perspectives on climate engineering, in order to support advocacy work that opposes geoengineering and addresses the root causes of climate change instead.

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