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Over-promising and under-delivering for half a century: CCS is still a risky and unproven technology
This Geoengineering Map Update on Carbon Capture and Storage technologies 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...
Growing concerns about Biochar safety and carbon markets
Photo Credit: UnsplashBy: Anja Chalmin The Geoengineering Map Update 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....
CCS and DAC continue to fail to deliver despite over a century of R&D
Photo credit: Alberta NewsroomBy Anja Chalmin 2nd Geoengineering Map Update The Geoengineering Map Update summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in...
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Carbon markets, geoengineering and other false solutions: What’s at stake at the current climate talks?
Guest article by Tamra Gilbertson, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Coraina de la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance As global temperature records continue to be broken at unprecedented rates, delegates are gathering again in Bonn, Germany, for the 60th...
UK government rubber stamps Drax’s first-of-a-kind BECCS scheme, then proposes subsidies for business-as-usual biomass burning
Guest article by Katy Brown, bioenergy campaigner with Biofuelwatch Earlier this year the UK Secretary of State Claire Coutinho granted development consent for Drax’s Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage project at its Selby power plant. Almost simultaneously,...
Japan is planning to dump captured carbon dioxide in countries in the Global South
Guest article by Ayumi Fukakusa, Deputy Executive Director of Friends of the Earth Japan As the need to drastically cut emissions grows greater than ever, so too does the attention being placed on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)—by those who want to keep polluting....
Latest briefings and reports
False claims from geoengineers, and other recent developments in Latin America
Photo Credit: Antonio Lapa By Anja Chalmin Two years ago, we provided an inventory of geoengineering projects on the Latin American continent. As then, most geoengineering activities in Latin America continue to be driven or carried out by...
The Seaweed Delusion: Industrial seaweed will not cool the climate or save nature
As the world scrambles for a climate fix, seaweeds – or “macroalgae” – have been thrust into the limelight. Buoyed up by hype and hundreds of millions of dollars of so called “green” investment, a new “blue carbon” seaweed industry is invading coasts and seas,...
Impacts of methane and commercializing methane capture
By Anja Chalmin Comparing anthropogenic influence on the two most important GHGs[i] Preindustrial atmospheric concentration never exceeded:Atmospheric concentration in 2022:Percentage increase:Annual emissions prior to industrializationGlobal annual emissions...
Latest from the HOME! Alliance
City of Alameda puts a stop to the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening experiment
Guest article by California residents Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch/Geoengineering Monitor, and Eesha Rangani, HOME! Alliance Marine Geoengineering Working Group coordinator In the early hours of this morning, City of Alameda City Council members voted unanimously to call...
Carbon markets, geoengineering and other false solutions: What’s at stake at the current climate talks?
Guest article by Tamra Gilbertson, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Coraina de la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance As global temperature records continue to be broken at unprecedented rates, delegates are gathering again in Bonn, Germany, for the 60th...
HOME! Alliance at SB60: Making a stand against geoengineering, carbon markets and other false solutions
There's much at stake at this year's session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC SB60), which is taking place 3-13 June in Bonn, Germany. The Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME!) Alliance delegation brings together a...