New Report from Biofuelwatch Exposes Sordid Workings of California Climate Politics While California state authorities continue to promote markets-based and technological approaches to advance ‘net zero’ as a primary focus for climate policy, grassroots organizations...
By Anja Chalmin The fossil fuel industry has a stake in the majority of known CCS and CCUS projects Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) fall into the category of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) geoengineering...
By Anja Chalmin Since 2017, the companies Carbfix and Climeworks have been working on joint projects to capture CO2 and inject it underground in Iceland. Now this cooperation is to be expanded further: Climeworks aims to multiply the amount of...
By Anja Chalmin Current developments on geoengineering technologies across six continents Part 3 of this quarterly review on geoengineering presents new technical developments and funding programmes and reports on a number of long-standing projects. Direct Air...
By Anja Chalmin The "storage" of captured CO2 in consumer products is to be further developed with extensive financial support provided by companies and governments The Carbon XPRIZE has announced the winners of the competition. The prize money will be used to...
RESIST FALSE SOLUTIONSTO CLIMATE CHANGE Hoodwinked in the Hothouse is a new report that details new and alarming false solutions to climate change. Several HOME campaign friends and allies worked on the report to expose false climate solutions.In the 12 years since...
Photo 1: A worker lays white paint on the Peruvian Andes in a bid to get water and vegetation to return to the mountain range, © CNNPhoto 2: ‘BioUrban 2.0’ air purification system in Puebla, Mexico on August 7, © AFPPhoto 3: Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Technology...
by Anja Chalmin The interactive geoengineering map, generated by ETC Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, documents geoengineering projects and experiments worldwide. An analysis of the data shows that on the African continent the topic „Geoengineering“ has...
by Anja Chalmin Large-scale weather modification plans continue to grow in China: This plan may develop conflicts over water or endanger Asia's biggest freshwater reserve Weather modification has a long history in China. Since the 1950s, there has been a long series...
by Anja Chalmin Burning biomass is a threat to climate (and no silver bullet) – The impact of BECCS using the Drax plant, Great Britain’s biggest power plant, as an example Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is employed at the Drax Power Station in...
by Anja Chalmin CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE (CCS) IN THE NORTH SEA REGION Some coastal member states of the North Sea, e.g., Norway and Great Britain, propose to use the North Sea as a storage site for CO2. Some projects want to install new structures such as pipelines...
by Anja Chalmin Despite many concerns about the technology's impacts, several governments – UK, Australia and Denmark among them – have announced financial backing for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS) hubs. CCS increases the...
by Anja Chalmin CO2-based SYNTHETIC FUELS: NEW R&D COOPERATION AND PRODUCTION SITES In May, Lufthansa Group signed a Letter of Intent with the ETH Zurich and its two spin-offs Climeworks and Synhelion. The partnership aims to accelerate the market launch...
by Anja Chalmin Marine geoengineering: further offshore trials announced The coastal waters off Callao, in the Humboldt Current of the coast of Peru, were the scene of upwelling trials from February to April, performed by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research...
Overall, it can be said that the potential for CO2 as a feedstock for industrial processes compared to the global CO2 emissions is minuscule.
High-risk geoengineering projects are proceeding in violation of UN moratoria MONTREAL, SYDNEY, UTQIAGVIK, SANTIAGO—On World Oceans Day, members of a global coalition formed by 195 organizations on 45 countries are raising the alarm about the threat of geoengineering...
by Coraina de la Plaza, GFC, SpainMay 22nd is International Day for Biological Diversity, and the theme chosen by the United Nations this year is “Our solutions are in nature”. This is a clear reference to Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) as a strategy for mitigating...
We need a radical change in the way we produce energy. But decision makers are being seduced by ‘fixes’ promoted by the fossil fuel industry in an attempt to keep us locked into their failed model.
Solar geoengineering, upwelling, carbon capture and other projects receive funding in 2020
California state legislators have explicitly promotes a climate policy framework vision that celebrates and advances morally hazardous and environmentally dangerous geoengineering technologies for “carbon dioxide removal” (CDR) and “negative emissions.”
Attempting to remove CO2 from the atmosphere would block a real the climate transition
By Biofuelwatch In 2011 Biofuelwatch published Biochar: A Critical Review of Science and Policy. In that report we highlighted the uncertainties about biochar including the large land area that would be required to supply biomass for a global scale impact, the...
by Gabriel Levy A response to After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration by Holly Jean Buck (London: Verso Books, 2019). This post was originally published on the blog People and Nature. We need to talk about geoengineering. Badly. To do...
by Anja Chalmin The US-based Climate Foundation revealed plans to intermingle ocean water layers in Australian and Philippine coastal waters with the aim of sequestering atmospheric carbon as well as stimulating the growth of phytoplankton and macroalgae,...