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...
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...
Download PDF version: Sweden_SCoPEx_Briefing Location: Esrange Space Centre, Kiruna, Sweden Researchers in charge: Frank Keutsch (Principal Investigator), David Keith (Mission Scientist), based at Harvard University. Objectives The project stated objectives are:...
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...
Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Campaign Statement December 22, 2020 On December 15th, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), a solar geoengineering project of Harvard University, announced its plan to conduct part of a geoengineering experiment...
Episode #6 of the ETC Podcast is a conversation with ETC Group's Latin America Director, Silvia Ribeiro, about geoengineering and the Global South. Silvia has been working on geoengineering issues for 13 years, ad was at the UN negotiations that passed the global...
In this guest post, Dr. Richard A. Rosen closely examines some of the assertions and assumptions made by geoengineering proponents. The complexities of how aerosols would affect climate and ecosystems are not as straightforward or predictable as they are sometimes...
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...
HOME Campaign Statement on the SCoPEx Advisory Committee and its legitimation of Solar Geoengineering Blocking the sun on a vast scale to cool the planet: that’s the idea being pushed by a small group of geoengineers. Solar geoengineering is a dangerous set of...
Overall, it can be said that the potential for CO2 as a feedstock for industrial processes compared to the global CO2 emissions is minuscule.
You argue that current solar geoengineering research initiatives “serve to reinforce existing systems that concentrate wealth and power and perpetuate global inequities and injustices.” How do they do that?
The California State government is looking to distance itself from a controversial solar geoengineering project after pressure from civil society and movement groups around the world. Last July, the California Strategic Growth Council – a part of the California...
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...
Experiment defies 193-country UN moratorium Originally posted by ETC Group In a shocking move, a small group of Australian geoengineers have defied an international moratorium on the deployment of geoengineering technologies. To accomplish this, the project...
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