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...
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...
Solar geoengineering, upwelling, carbon capture and other projects receive funding in 2020
In the face of fossil fuel use that is likely to burn through carbon budgets, geoengineers have put forward large-scale proposals with the stated aim of restoring polar-ice or to slow the melting processes through interventions in the polar regions.
Dear Members of the SCoPEx Advisory Board:
We are writing because you have recently joined the Advisory Committee for SCoPEx, a project that aims to advance a solar geoengineering technology.
For fossil-fuel companies, the promise of geoengineering is the ideal excuse to continue with business as usual. Rather than allow the industry to continue to act in its own interest, the world must establish a strong, democratic regulatory mechanism, which includes the option to ban certain technologies outright.
A great variety of climate geoengineering projects have been driven forward throughout the past months, while questions remain about their side effects and long-term impacts.
The following blog was originally post to the CIEL web site as "We Do Not Need Geoengineering to Solve (or Exacerbate) the Climate Crisis". by Carroll Muffett On February 13, the Center for International Environmental Law launched a major new report examining the...
An Arctic Indigenous organizer says that when it comes to the geoengineering project Ice 911, local community members have little to no knowledge of the experiments taking place on their lands. Community members say they have not consented, and have concerns about the...
These briefings explore the potential consequences of using Solar Radiation Management (SRM) – a form of geoengineering being considered by some governments to address climate change. SRM is a set of technologies designed to reduce sunlight and lower temperatures....
Silicon Valley and Big Oil are heading in the same direction for different reasons: geoengineering as a climate technofix by Dru Jay The global response to the climate crisis is increasingly dominated by two forces – we’ll call them the disruptors and the distractors...
by Silvia Ribeiro (This article originally appeared in Jacobin Magazine and on the Science for the People website.) According to the most recent IPCC report, we have only twelve years to drastically reduce emissions if we’re to keep the Earth’s temperature rise from...
by Pat Mooney In Jacobin Magazine ("The Need for Carbon Removal," July 24, 2018), Holly Jean Buck set out to convince readers that the left should develop a “utopian” political strategy favourable to Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technology. While I appreciate the...
by Dru Jay On climate issues, California governor Jerry Brown has been “hailed as the ‘anti-Trump’” for his efforts to keep the United States government committed to the 2015 Paris Climate Accord. So when California recently hosted the Global Climate Action Summit,...
Large-scale technological interventions to “fix” the climate crisis are moving up on the political agenda. Some climate scientists are now proposing geoengineering interventions in the atmosphere to suppress global warming - most prominently SAI (Stratospheric Aerosol...
Duncan McLaren's blog post on climate justice and climate modelling (below) highlights important findings and shortcomings of existing research on geoengineering, particularly Solar Radiation Management (SRM – see our fact sheet here). However, the Geoengineering...
» Download this briefing [pdf] Location: Moss Landing, California, USA (Between Monterey and Santa Cruz) Budget: $16.3 million Summary: The Marine Cloud Brightening Project (MCBP) aims to test the premise that spraying a fine mist of sea water into clouds can make...
» Download this briefing [pdf] Locations: Near Barrow, Alaska; the Beaufort Gyre (an ocean current flowing past Nunavut and Alaska); and Fram Straight (between Greenland and Svalbard) Budget: $97,630 (based on 2015 crowdfunder1, which raised $3,103 from 24 donors, but...
ETC Group, BiofuelWatch and Heinrich Boell Foundation present a comprehensive argument against geoengineering in this report. Click here to download the full report (pdf) As a rapidly warming world manifests heat waves, floods, droughts and hurricanes, geoengineering...
Download PDF version: ETC-briefing-SCoPEx Location: World View Spaceport Tucson, Arizona, USA Key Players: Frank Keutsch, David Keith, John Dykema, and Lizzie Burns, all Harvard Professors. Burns and Keith head the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program....
By Dr. Rachel Smolker Hydroxyl (OH) is a simple, very short lived but “radical” marriage of one hydrogen and one oxygen molecule. Being “radical” means that it reacts very readily with other chemicals, being an important agent of change. Hydroxyl radicals are referred...
Interactive map from ETC Group and Heinrich Boell Foundation shows growth of climate control efforts This interactive geoengineering map, prepared by ETC Group and the Heinrich Boell Foundation, is an attempt to shed light on the worldwide state of geoengineering by...
[Originally posted by Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative.] by Lili Fuhr All geoengineering approaches are by definition large-scale, intentional, and high-risk. Some have well-known negative impacts, threatening the achievement of the Sustainable...