Photo Credit: Antonio Lapa By Anja Chalmin Two years ago, we provided an inventory of geoengineering projects on the Latin American continent. As then, most geoengineering activities in Latin America continue to be driven or carried out by...
Carbon Dioxide Removal / Greenhouse Gas Removal
The Seaweed Delusion: Industrial seaweed will not cool the climate or save nature
As the world scrambles for a climate fix, seaweeds – or “macroalgae” – have been thrust into the limelight. Buoyed up by hype and hundreds of millions of dollars of so called “green” investment, a new “blue carbon” seaweed industry is invading coasts and seas,...
Growing concerns about Biochar safety and carbon markets
Photo Credit: UnsplashBy: Anja Chalmin The Geoengineering Map Update 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....
CCS and DAC continue to fail to deliver despite over a century of R&D
Photo credit: Alberta NewsroomBy Anja Chalmin 2nd Geoengineering Map Update The Geoengineering Map Update summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in...
Venture capital and carbon credits fuel an explosion of marine geoengineering projects
The Geoengineering Map Updates summarise 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. By Anja Chalmin Critical Updates on...
Impacts of methane and commercializing methane capture
By Anja Chalmin Comparing anthropogenic influence on the two most important GHGs[i] Preindustrial atmospheric concentration never exceeded:Atmospheric concentration in 2022:Percentage increase:Annual emissions prior to industrializationGlobal annual emissions...
Marine Geoengineering: Between profits and climate protection, our oceans are becoming an experimental field
This is an extended article of the already published piece in Rundbreif (in German). Nathan Thanki & Serayna Solanki Contact: coordinator@handsoffmotherearth.org In March, the United Nations agreed to a High Seas Treaty aiming to, in the words of Antonio...
Geoengineering Map Update: Carbon markets are a major driver for geoengineering
The Geoengineering Map Update 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. By Anja Chalmin Critical Updates There is...
Commercialization in geoengineering continues to increase
By Anja Chalmin The Quarterly Review summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map highlighting emerging trends for civil society and climate justice movements. Key Points - Quarterly Review IV In the last quarter of 2022, the trend continues...
The current state of CCS in the US after 100 years of CO2 capture and 25 years of extensive federal funding
By Anja Chalmin In the United States, CO2 has been captured for more than 100 years and CO2 capture combined with "storage" has been heavily funded by the US-DOE for 25 years. CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) refers to the capture of CO2 emissions from power plants or...
UNFCCC Article 6.4: No to legitimizing geoengineering and land-based offsets
Download the statement HERE Paris Agreement Article 6 is designed to allow Parties to engage in cooperative activities “to allow for higher ambition.” The Supervisory Body for the 6.4 mechanism – the successor to the Clean Development Mechanism – has been tasked to...
Geoengineering projects in Africa intensify along with oil and gas expansion
Photo Credit: Antoinette PlessisBy Anja Chalmin The African continent - home to about one-fifth of the world's population and a great variety and diversity of other living creatures - has by far the lowest per capita emissions in an intercontinental comparison and is...
Is a new legal pathway to stopping dangerous marine geoengineering projects on the horizon?
Photo Credit: Linus NylundBy Laura DunnFrom the arctic to the Galapagos, communities have been resisting marine geoengineering projects that threaten their coasts and marine ecosystems around the world. A recent announcement from the London Protocol / London...
Marine Geoengineering – Quarterly Review III (part 2)
Photo Credit: Jeremy BishopBy Anja ChalminThe second part of the third quarterly review of 2022 looks at geoengineering developments on water and on land with a focus on marine projects. Many of the approaches to marine geoengineering involve technologies to...
Increased funds for Geoengineering – Quarterly Review III (part 1)
Photo Credit: JP Valery By Anja Chalmin Every day people in the United States, Canada and the UK are paying for some big new geoengineering projects in the form of publicly funded geoengineering projects. This, along with other new funding opportunities for...
Link Round Up: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and the Inflation Reduction Act
Across the United States, Indigenous peoples and environmental justice organisations have responded with outrage to the ongoing commitments in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to geoengineering technologies such as carbon capture and storage, direct air capture, as...
Geoengineering Updates: Quarterly Review II 2022
By Anja Chalmin The second quarterly review of current developments in geoengineering provides an insight into new geoengineering companies and projects as well as new funding opportunities for geoengineering. The vast majority of new projects and funders are - as...
Immense additional fossil fuel extraction and rising climate-relevant emissions from geoengineering projects in Asia
By Anja Chalmin Introduction In Asia, the number of new and planned carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects has increased rapidly in recent years. The captured CO2 is mostly used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) or enhanced gas recovery (EGR). EOR...
Current political and private sector influences on geoengineering projects in the EU
By Anja Chalmin Introduction In March 2022, the European Commission announced that it is spending € 1.1 billion co-funding seven large-scale climate projects. Among them are five geoengineering projects, which will cost € 880 million,...
UN Oceans Conference Side Event: Marine Geoengineering
A growing threat in the name of climate protection - Side event 29 June 1-2:30 pm Lisbon time Marine geoengineering - advanced by industry and some governments in the name of addressing the climate crisis - is a growing threat to marine environments and ecosystems and...
Quarterly Review I (part 3): marine geoengineering – ongoing and planned open-ocean trials and recent developments in research
By Anja Chalmin The third and final part of this quarterly review provides an overview of planned greenhouse gas removal (GGR) projects and outdoor trials affecting the marine environment. The new year has seen an increase in the number of planned marine...
QUARTERLY REVIEW #3: Carbon Capture and Storage developments in 2021
Photo Credit: Alberta NewsroomBy Anja Chalmin The third part of the report presents new developments, projects and funding programmes for the geoengineering field of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). More than 70 new Carbon Capture and Storage projects started in 2021...
QUARTERLY REVIEW #3: Biomass developments in 2021
Photo Credit: Statkraft By Anja Chalmin 3,000 miles of CO2 pipelines to be built and other updates on capturing carbon using plant biomass The second part of the report presents developments, projects and funding programmes aimed at capturing carbon using plant...
QUARTERLY REVIEW #3: DAC & CCUS developments in 2021
By Anja Chalmin This report presents the latest developments in geoengineering technologies, projects and funding programs worldwide in recent months. The report’s findings show an increasing interest in capturing CO2 (carbon dioxide) from ambient air and...