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...
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...
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...
Ahead of the publication of her new book “The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change”, Dr. Vandana Shiva reflects on the risks that solar geoengineering poses to life itself, and the fallacy of using more pollution to solve a climate crisis created...
By Senara Wilson Hodges, Keep Our Sea Chemical Free and The Cornwall Carbon Scrutiny Group Local residents are fiercely proud and protective of St Ives Bay. It is counted as one of the UK’s most beautiful coastal environments—flanked by award winning golden beaches...
Guest article by California residents Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch/Geoengineering Monitor, and Eesha Rangani, HOME! Alliance Marine Geoengineering Working Group coordinator In the early hours of this morning, City of Alameda City Council members voted unanimously to call...
Guest article by Tamra Gilbertson, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Coraina de la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance As global temperature records continue to be broken at unprecedented rates, delegates are gathering again in Bonn, Germany, for the 60th...
Guest article by Katy Brown, bioenergy campaigner with Biofuelwatch Earlier this year the UK Secretary of State Claire Coutinho granted development consent for Drax’s Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage project at its Selby power plant. Almost simultaneously,...
Guest article by Ayumi Fukakusa, Deputy Executive Director of Friends of the Earth Japan As the need to drastically cut emissions grows greater than ever, so too does the attention being placed on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)—by those who want to keep polluting....
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...