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BECCS carbon credit sales hit record levels despite increasing environmental and economic concerns
This update on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends to aid civil society and climate justice movements in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. This...
Arctic ice management and other marine geoengineering projects should remain science fiction
This update on Marine Geoengineering through Arctic ice management and other proposals summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose...
Dumping biomass in the open ocean is an unproven carbon removal strategy, but that hasn’t stopped companies from selling carbon credits from it
This update on Marine Geoengineering through biomass sinking summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally....
Latest guest articles
UN climate talks could undermine precaution on geoengineering called for by the biodiversity convention
Guest article by Linda Schneider, Heinrich Boell Foundation International Climate Policy Director, and Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group Latin American Director. Originally published on boell.de. UNFCCC negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risk legitimising...
Geoengineering: Global Southwashing is the new greenwashing
By Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group Latin America Director, Mexico. Article translated and re-published from original in La Jornada. British NGO The Degrees Initiative presents itself as a support fund for academics from the Global South to carry out research on the effects...
Geoengineering is a crime against Mother Earth and her children
Ahead of the publication of her new book “The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change”, Dr. Vandana Shiva reflects on the risks that solar geoengineering poses to life itself, and the fallacy of using more pollution to solve a climate crisis created...
Latest briefings and reports
Global Southwashing: How The Degrees Initiative is imposing its solar geoengineering agenda onto climate research in the Global South
This briefing by Anja Chalmin, a researcher with Geoengineering Monitor and the ETC Group, examines The Degrees Initiative, a UK-based NGO that is “dedicated to putting the Global South at the centre of the Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) conversation.” Contents...
New briefing offers a critical perspective on biochar
Biofuelwatch's new briefing, Biochar: A critical perspective, looks into what the science tells us about whether biochar reliably stores carbon and boosts soil fertility. Download the briefing In 2011, Biofuelwatch published a comprehensive report on biochar:...
Protect coastal and marine biodiversity from geoengineering
New ETC Group briefing for delegates at SBSTTA 26 In a wave of “blue carbon” hype, oceans and coastal areas are increasingly pitched as tools to fight global warming. Around the globe dozens of new projects are projected to increase the ocean's capacity to absorb CO2...
Latest from the HOME! Alliance
Geoengineering decision one of a small number of positives from otherwise frustrating UN Biodiversity Convention
The Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance is celebrating a hard-fought victory at the 16th Convention of the Parties of the UN's convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16), with negotiators agreeing reaffirm the CBD's de facto moratorium on geoengineering, and...
From Bonn to Baku: Carbon market negotiations are putting geoengineering onto the UNFCCC agenda
Geoengineering Monitor July 2024 newsletter. Want to receive our newsletters by email? Sign up here. With concrete climate finance commitments still falling woefully short of what is required in terms of mitigation and adaptation efforts, and the loss and damages...
UN Climate Talks: Setting Sail to Plunder the Ocean
Opinion piece by Mary Church, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance, originally posted by IPSnews.net Despite the evident and increasing urgency of the climate crisis, the June intersessional meeting of the UNFCCC...