Photo Credit: Benjamin ChildBy: Geoengineering MonitorIn May 2022, a new “global commission” will be launched to discuss and potentially devise a governance regime for solar geoengineering. This article provides background, context, and critical assessment to inform...
A few weeks ago, 100+ concerned academics worldwide called for a Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering, asking governments to declare not to fund or deploy the development of solar geoengineering technologies. Many concerned scholars, such as Prof Frank Biermann,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X20jScs-V84 Environmental and human rights risks posed by geoengineering and potential litigation opportunities Speakers: - Kate Cook, Matrix Chambers - Carroll Muffett, CIEL - Åsa Larsson Blind, Saami Council Facilitator: Gita Parihar,...
Acknowledging the gravity of the IPCC report, global organizations and some based in the United States are calling on governments to reject false solutions to the climate crisis and invest in strategies that will rapidly reduce emissions. Climate Justice Alliance...
Introducing a new website from the Stop SCoPEx Network Sweden. The website shares resources from the campaign along with the video of the Stop SCoPEx event along with interviews and videos of events about the risks of solar geoengineering. Visit stopsolargeo.org The...
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:...
What kind of system of knowledge considers it a good idea to try to manipulate the whole climate of an entire planet? For Episode #7 and our second of two episodes on geoengineering, ETC Group's Dru Jay spoke to Tom Goldtooth, who is the Executive Director of the...
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...
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?
by Gary Graham Hughes (originally posted on Biofuelwatch) A mysterious bill regarding the development of a protocol for measuring “radiative forcing” as a climate action indicator stalled out in the California Senate last year. While legislative staff for the author...
In early August, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the ISO, a corporate-driven standards organization, was moving forward with a new standard that could undermine existing climate standards, which included mentions of geoengineering. At the time, we asked who...
Join CIEL, Heinrich Böll, Oil Change International, and DiCaprio Foundation/OneEarth for short presentations and a Q&A on three seminal reports on geoengineering: In the first two months of 2019, the Center for International Environmental Law/Heinrich Böll...
by Linda Schneider Reposted from DeSmogBlog At the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, this week, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia blocked a push to gather information on potentially regulating climate geoengineering technologies....
Civil society reiterates call for a ban on geoengineering » pdf version Nairobi, Kenya – Under pressure from high-emitting, oil-producing countries, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) failed to advance a proposal to examine the risks of geoengineering...
Statement by Center for International Environmental Law, ETC Group, Heinrich Böll Foundation Geoengineering is an ineffective and irresponsible approach to the challenges posed by climate change. Its risks and potential impacts are global and extend far beyond the...
Originally posted to SDG Science Hub by Lili Fuhr Geoengineering – large-scale intentional manipulation of the Earth’s natural systems such as oceans, lands, atmosphere and carbon cycles – is increasingly being presented as a strategy to counteract, dilute or delay...
by Heinrich Böll Foundation and ETC Group It has been almost a decade after the landmark moratorium on all climate-related geoengineering was passed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2010 and several years since the decision of parties to the London...
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 "Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible. And it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal...
by Linda Schneider (This article was originally posted on the Heinrich Boell Foundation website.) On October 8, 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launched its Special Report on global warming at 1.5 above pre-industrial (SR1.5) The landmark...
Español Français In a widely-supported Manifesto released today, 23 international organizations, six “Alternative Nobel Prize” recipients, and 87 national organizations from five continents called for a halt to testing and political consideration of climate...
180 civil society organizations and popular movements denounce geoengineering and demand an immediate stop to all open-air experiments. If your organization would like to join the fight against geoengineering and endorse the HOME Manifesto, please send an email...
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 Silvia Ribeiro The pirates of marine geoengineering are not giving up easily. Although there is a UN moratorium on ocean fertilisation, the company Oceaneos wants to experiment with this risky technology in Chile and Peru, despite not having permission from the...