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...
Geoengineering Technologies
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...
Support Alaska Native Delegation to stop Arctic Ice Project!
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...
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 I (part 2): Solar radiation management – new field trials, research projects and funding – and growing opposition
By Anja Chalmin Part two of this first quarterly review 2022 looks at new plans and funding for solar radiation management (SRM) field trials and research activities - and there are even ideas that stretch into space. Currently, five SRM field...
Quarterly Review I (part 1): Weather modification – current developments and lessons learned after 70 years of deployment
By Anja Chalmin The new year has begun with new geoengineering approaches, plans, research activities and funding spanning all natural environments - land, sea and air - and there are even ideas that stretch into space. Regardless of the natural environment in which...
Experts call on the UN for a Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
A group of academics from around the world are calling for a non-use agreement on solar geoengineering. Their petition takes the stance that "solar geoengineering deployment at planetary scale cannot be fairly and effectively governed in the current system of...
Quarterly Review IV: Open ocean trials and further developments in geoengineering in the marine environment
By Anja ChalminThe last quarter of 2021 saw the announcement of a number of new geoengineering experiments, as well as commercial and research projects that impact the marine environment, including geoengineering approaches that aim to manage solar radiation, brighten...
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...
Carbon Capture or Captured Futures? New Report From Biofuelwatch on California Climate Politics
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...
Fossil fuel industry and investments in CCS & CCUS
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...
Carbfix and Climeworks’ large-scale plans to capture CO2 and inject it into basalt formations in Iceland involve high consumption of scarce resources and potential risks
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...
Quarterly Review #2: Direct Air Capture
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...
Quarterly Review #2: Carbon Capture
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...
#SayNo2SolarGeo VIDEO
We are excited to share #SayNo2Solar, a new video featuring Greta Thunberg, Michael Mann, Vandana Shiva, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Bill McKibben, Jennie Stephens, Naomi Klein, Tom Goldtooth and Åsa Larsson Blind. Watch the video to listen to their warnings about the...