Geoengineering Monitor July 2024 newsletter. Want to receive our newsletters by email? Sign up here. With concrete climate finance commitments still falling woefully short of what is required in terms of mitigation and adaptation efforts, and the loss and damages...
There's much at stake at this year's session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC SB60), which is taking place 3-13 June in Bonn, Germany. The Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME!) Alliance delegation brings together a...
*Technofixes are a dangerous distraction from real climate action* 30 May, 2024, for immediate release Over 70 civil society organizations including NGOs, climate justice networks, social justice movements, and Indigenous Peoples groups from across the...
We, civil society, Indigenous Peoples and grassroots organizations from around the world, are deeply concerned by the proliferation of open air and water marine geoengineering experiments that are planned or already underway, many of which are selling carbon offsets,...
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...
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at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) a resolution on solar geoengineering was withdrawn.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...
Republished from Demand Climate Justice - originally published 7 July 2023 To: The Supervisory Body Members, Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement Parties to the UNFCCC – This open letter from civil society groups from across the world reiterates our demands regarding...
By Laura Dunn, Geoengineering Monitor Editor False climate solutions are dangerous distractions - this is the key message from yesterday’s action calling out false climate solutions like carbon markets and geoengineering. Civil society organisations, grassroots...
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...
December 12, 2022, Montreal, Canada – Eighty-three national and international organizations from forty countries have released an open letter calling on the parties to the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (CBD) to say no to geoengineering and yes to...
No to climate geoengineering! Open call to CBD Parties and CBD Secretariat The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took a groundbreaking decision by addressing geoengineering and its potential impacts on biodiversity and people early on. In a...
WHO: Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), ETC Group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) WHERE: COP27, Press Conference Room 2 Luxor WHEN:...
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...
A few weeks ago, 100+ concerned academics worldwide called for a Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering, asking governments to declare not to fund or deploy the development of solar geoengineering technologies. Many concerned scholars, such as Prof Frank Biermann,...
Acknowledging the gravity of the IPCC report, global organizations and some based in the United States are calling on governments to reject false solutions to the climate crisis and invest in strategies that will rapidly reduce emissions. Climate Justice Alliance...
Photo Credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Linnea Nordström Creative Commons LicenseA letter from the Saami Council to Harvard calls on Harvard to cancel the SCoPEx solar geoengineering experiment. Signed by over 35 Indigenous organizations the letter states, "solar...
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...
The Saami Council has together with Swedish environmental organisations sent a letter to the Advisory Committee of the Harvard-based SCoPEx geoengineering project. In the letter the Saami Council voices their strong concerns and demands cancellation of the planned...
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...
What kind of system of knowledge considers it a good idea to try to manipulate the whole climate of an entire planet? For Episode #7 and our second of two episodes on geoengineering, ETC Group's Dru Jay spoke to Tom Goldtooth, who is the Executive Director of the...
Español Français In a widely-supported Manifesto released today, 23 international organizations, six “Alternative Nobel Prize” recipients, and 87 national organizations from five continents called for a halt to testing and political consideration of climate...
180 civil society organizations and popular movements denounce geoengineering and demand an immediate stop to all open-air experiments. If your organization would like to join the fight against geoengineering and endorse the HOME Manifesto, please send an email...
In an attempt to shed light on the worldwide state of geoengineering, ETC Group and Heinrich Böll Foundation have launched an interactive world map of geoengineering experiments, available at: https://map.geoengineeringmonitor.org/ The map is necessarily partial, as...